Writing Quotes · Page 461

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

— Louise Fitzhugh

“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

— Rhiannon Giddens

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

— Lucinda Williams

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

— Iris Origo

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

— Elizabeth George

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

— Abi Morgan

“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.”

— Ken Scott

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

— Sally Schneider

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on…

— Phyllis McGinley

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't…

— David Grann

We already tried writing musicals. Sometimes that failure can become a cause for us. We had so much passion for the idea…

— Ron Mael

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

— Louis Begley

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me…

— Jennifer Armentrout

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell…

— Charlize Theron

“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of…

— Eileen Power

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me…

— Chinua Achebe

One of the things I love about doing television is that I don't feel like I'm just purely a writer. I like…

— Stephanie Savage

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd…

— Gene Wilder

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…

— Kenneth Patchen

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a…

— David Labrava

“A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets…

— Nenia Campbell

“It was evident to me then that I existed in the same manner as all other men, that I must grow old,…

— Marcel Proust

“From the writer's perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.

— Oliver Stone

“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”

— Saru Singhal

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

— Anonymous

“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.”

— robert m drake

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

— George Meyer

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

— Ishmael Reed

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

— Grant Morrison

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

When you're writing in first person you have to be honest about how people think.

— Dawn O'Porter

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal