Writing Quotes · Page 502

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

— Xander Berkeley

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

— Larry David

I don't sit down and think, now I want to have my family and then I want to write my own series.

— Joanna Page

Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.

— John Prine

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

— Adam Granduciel

“Her ambition to write stories was the most visible burden of her life.”

— Sylvia Plath

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.

— Richard Flanagan

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

— Joel Salatin

When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true…

— Jolene Purdy

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write…

— Roxane Gay

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with…

— Danny Strong

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little…

— Lauren Groff

Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't…

— Bryan Procter

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and…

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret…

— Jenny Zhang

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

— Danielle Trussoni

I think, one day, I might actually try writing a bunch of - a collection of essays maybe on the funnier side…

— Erik Larson

“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Years ago I used to pick a word of the day randomly out of an dictionary/thesaurus to write poetry. I learned then…

— DragonPoetikFly

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a…

— Hugh Mackay

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You…

— Adam Rapp

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case…

— Jami Attenberg

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of…

— Khaled Hosseini

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

— John Mortimer

It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.

— Oliver Sykes

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

— Walter Smith

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

— Cynthia Weil

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

— Nick Antosca

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

— Erin McKean

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

— Anonymous

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

— N. K. Jemisin

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

— Lisa Kudrow

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

— Francine Prose

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

“Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.”

— Amy Rogers

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini