Writing Quotes · Page 450

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

— Dani Shapiro

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

— J. B. Priestley

It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

— Steven Brust

This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

— Candace Bushnell

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

— Arnold Bennett

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

— Sally Quinn

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

— Michael Cunningham

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

— Billy Strayhorn

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a…

— Tina Fey

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy…

— Dia Frampton

Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your…

— Eddie Cahill

You have to ensure box office returns for someone to place confidence in you and make content with you, whether you are…

— Arjun Mathur

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if…

— Hubert Selby Jr

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are…

— Franklin P. Adams

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You…

— Cory Barlog

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

— Andy Muschietti

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By…

— Rabih Alameddine

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common…

— Henry David Thoreau

I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if…

— Taylor Swift

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all…

— Mike Mills

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies.…

— Mindy Kaling

I really don't try to force the creative process. I'm really jealous of those other rappers who just hear a beat and…

— Alexander Spit

I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring. Theology is the study of God…

— Wayne Grudem

I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite…

— Jim Jefferies

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

— Wilson Mizner

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

— Fred Barnes

“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”

— Stephen King

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

— Illeana Douglas

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

— Kate Atkinson

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

— Virginia Woolf

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

— Peter Jennings

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

— Nadine Gordimer

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

— Masiela Lusha

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

— Danny Strong

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

— Delta Goodrem

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

— Bobby Bones

The idea - or, if you like, the need - to write and record 'Lash Out' was born of a feeling within…

— Alice Merton