Writing Quotes · Page 478

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

— Gena Rowlands

STFc2k I value the article.Really thank you! Keep writing.

— Tenders

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

— Rob Crow

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

— Jenny Lawson

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

— Anne Carson

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it…

— Gideon Defoe

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know…

— Michael Patrick King

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused…

— Meg Tilly

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated…

— Teju Cole

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good…

— Corin Nemec

I have other careers in terms of stand-up, stage acting and writing, so I don't feel too hidebound by that, but I…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal…

— John Updike

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do…

— Emma Donoghue

“Although he had changed his name, his history came with him, even to his writing. The rhythm of his rain-soaked childhood became…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student…

— Georg Buhler

“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?…

— Ray Bradbury

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta,…

— Aldous Huxley

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and…

— Octavia Butler

The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the…

— Erik Larson

I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured…

— Osama Alomar

...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but…

— C. D. Broad

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

— Tanya Saracho

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”

— Kristen Lamb

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.

— Melissa De Sousa

I'm lucky enough to have a lot of writing work coming in which I can do from home.

— Rosie Jones

“If you have time to breathe, you have time to write.”

— Donalie Beltran

“Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.”

— Don Roff

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

— Philip James Bailey

“Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.”

— Chloe Thurlow

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

— Marjorie Liu

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

— Gordon Lightfoot

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw