Writing Quotes · Page 437

“The best marketing you can do for your book is to start writing the next one.”

— Ryan Holiday

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you

— Mae West

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

— Stephen King

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

— Lincoln Barnett

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

— Jez Butterworth

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

— Anonymous

“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage,…

— Peter Glenville

This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs…

— Douglas McIlroy

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court…

— Ben Mezrich

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask…

— Bert Sugar

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

— Peter Benchley

In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold…

— Andrea Gibson

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards…

— Joyce Maynard

The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.

— LP

If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable…

— Joel McIver

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect…

— Tracy K. Smith

I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man…

— Neil Gaiman

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we…

— William Stafford

You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy…

— Damian Barr

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I…

— Barry Hannah

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of…

— Joseph Addison

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have…

— Anthony Burgess

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

— Tracy Kidder

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

— Rolonda Watts

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

— Chinua Achebe

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

— Anderson Cooper

“I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.”

— Karris Callahan

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I generally don't think of prospective actors when I write.

— Misha Green

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Sometimes when I do stand-up the night before and I'm in a writing room the next day, I'm sharper.

— Robby Hoffman

“I write long pieces because I don’t have time to write short ones..”

— Trey Jones