Writing Quotes · Page 471

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

— Stephen Gaghan

“The best fiction writers are the most believable liars...”

— Bea Cannon

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

— Danny Strong

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

“My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…”

— Leo Tolstoy

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

— Jonathan Ames

“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.”

— Zachary Koukol

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

— Gillian Flynn

To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves…

— Marie Calloway

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

— Rza

A writers soul is an instrument of music that plays the songs in the shadows of life and paints the secret things…

— Doreen F Graves

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.

— David Droga

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

— Sarah MacLean

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to…

— Umberto Eco

I was pregnant with my youngest child at the time, writing about mass death while I'm growing this precious little life inside…

— Julia Scheeres

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you…

— Stephen King

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And…

— Paul Dini

“I’m a woman intent on reinventing herself at an age where wiser, saner women are slowing down. The captivating magic of words…

— Daisy Dexter Dobbs

“I think that thinking of our material universe, the one we perceive with our sense, as the only thing is not only…

— Theodora Goss

In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing…

— George Saunders

“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination,…

— Samuel Johnson

As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make…

— Chris Pavone

“Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.”

— Christy Hall

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

— Rick Moody

“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

— Natalie Goldberg

“I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

— Farley Mowat

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

— Ted Sizer

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

— John Hiatt

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

— Jonah Hill

“Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.”

— Anasia Nicole Hixon

“St. Bernard said, ‘Every word one writes smites the Devil.”

— Lillian Stewart Carl

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda