Writing Quotes · Page 479

“See the world anew and write down the bones of it.”

— A. D. Sams

I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene.

— Celine Sciamma

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

— George Orwell

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

— Donna Tartt

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

— Salma Hayek

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

— Elizabeth George

It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way…

— Ted Dekker

ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a…

— Brandon Massey

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period…

— W. E. B. Griffin

Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head...but not always in your heart.

— Stephen Leigh

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and…

— Mary Wesley

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as…

— A. A. Milne

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

— Tom King

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which…

— Martin Amis

[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around…

— Michel Foucault

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does…

— Whitley Strieber

“--From "A Familiar Preface", 1912(PR,pp,19-20）： “At a time when nothing which is not revolutionary in some way or other can expect to…

— Joseph Conrad

I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time…

— Ian Fleming

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in…

— David Malouf

My advice would be to take time with the music and writing, rather than just getting a song done, really thrown together,…

— Brendon Urie

All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should…

— Neil Young

I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read…

— Maeve Binchy

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

— Susannah Cahalan

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Conrad Hall

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

— Douglas Wilson

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”

— Andrew Barger

“On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses. I kept on walking.”

— Peter James West

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

— Kit Reed

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

— Dennis Ritchie

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

— Don DeLillo

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

— Jens Lekman

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

— Aimee Bender

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

— Joseph Brodsky

When writing the story of your life...don't let anyone hold the pen for you

— Mercy Pheona

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

— Adele

“Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.”

— Scott Gates

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers