Writing Quotes · Page 431

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

— Jonathan Stroud

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

— Liev Schreiber

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

— Cyril Connolly

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

— Taylor Sheridan

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book…

— Ted Bell

“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still…

— Niccolo Tucci

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I…

— Mitch Hedberg

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from…

— Lionel Shriver

“Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful…

— Dani Shapiro

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the…

— Elizabeth Kostova

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other…

— Joy Williams

“Writers who spend all night writing, addicted to caffeine and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, are a myth, Marcus. You have to be disciplined.…

— Joël Dicker

I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on…

— Zach Condon

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit,…

— Kirby Larson

In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very,…

— Philippe Falardeau

When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks…

— Madeline Brewer

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm…

— Donald Miller

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I…

— Sebastian Junger

There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over…

— Lucinda Williams

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

— Curt Smith

What is written is more influential than what is said.

— James Cook

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

— Nick Lachey

“Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back”

— Kya Aliana

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

— Danielle Steel

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

— Aimee Bender

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

— Ezra Pound

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anais Nin

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Let all our words(written or spoken) be for the glory of God and the good of his children.”

— Irene McCullum-Hines

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

— Daniel Keys Moran

“If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!”

— Jen Selinsky

“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.”

— Miles Tager