Writing Quotes · Page 495

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

— Meg Rosoff

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

— Miriam Toews

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

— Doris McCarthy

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

— Christa Miller

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

— Sam Shepard

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

— Anonymous

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

— David Droga

“But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block,…

— Adrienne Rich

With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have…

— Jay Harrington

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers…

— Thomas Fleming

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about,…

— Virgil Thomson

As far as Raikar Case' is concerned, I give the entire credit to the writer because of the way they have written…

— Atul Kulkarni

“To dislike a writer’s politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible…

— George Orwell

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

— Jillian Bell

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to…

— Giovanni Ribisi

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If…

— Gao Xingjian

Let's be honest, you and I have probably seen a whole lot of family films - you have to do something special.…

— John Krasinski

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or…

— A. C. Benson

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try…

— Cassandra Clare

Automated gender analysis of my writings often marks me as male, probably because I write about technology, and also about war. But…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his…

— Bill Watterson

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or,…

— Angus King

“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a…

— Ocean Vuong

“It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.”

— Parnell Hall

I started out as an artist, but I've always wanted to be a writer and producer.

— Teddy Geiger

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

— Aldous Huxley

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

— Ernest Cline

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

— Jonathan Raban

The creative treasure of Israel's artists and writers will survive forever.

— Isaac Herzog

“If I didn't write, I'd explode in a brilliant shower of literacy sparkles and would be no more.”

— Ksenia Anske

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

— Larry McMurtry

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

— Dick Cavett

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

— Jeffrey Archer

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

— Agatha Christie

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

— Sting

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

— Marc Almond

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

— Ernest Hemingway