Writing Quotes · Page 438

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

— Jim Piddock

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

— Seungri

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I want to do a musical. I want to write a book. I have all these ideas and I can't get away…

— Saara Aalto

“A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run”

— Channing Pollock

“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.”

— Bonnie Greer

There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it…

— Gerry Spence

“I was actually thinking about writing, maybe," Owen said. "About Charm?" Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. "No?" Owen said, probably a bit…

— James Riley

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of…

— Sam Shepard

I really like melodies that have a certain tension against the chords. I like writing things that are sort of insistent.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

— Colbie Caillat

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things…

— Bishop Briggs

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at…

— Norman Lear

There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting…

— David Sedaris

Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can…

— Ngaio Marsh

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote…

— Michael Hirst

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him…

— Orhan Pamuk

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make…

— Tony Kushner

Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through…

— Shane Claiborne

When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never…

— Hilary Mantel

“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and…

— Mark Leyner

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

— Thomas Haden Church

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

— Clifford Geertz

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

— Jack Bickham

“There is not much to talk about love, but enough to write books about it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

— Lisa Jewell

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

— Bertolt Brecht

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

— John Baldessari

“Writing is the only way to change the world without leaving bed.”

— Anonymous

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

— Louise Erdrich

The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

— Josh Lieb

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

— George Orwell

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

— Bryce Courtenay