Writing Quotes · Page 509

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you

— Mae West

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

— Lincoln Barnett

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

— Stephen King

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

— Jez Butterworth

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

— Anonymous

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

— Tracy Kidder

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you…

— Lynn Abbey

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where…

— Antonin Artaud

All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and…

— Cailee Spaeny

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

— Saul Bellow

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to…

— K. D. Lang

If you're writing a show about modern media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his family are an incredibly important model and some of…

— Jesse Armstrong

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted…

— David Friedman

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God,…

— Jimmy Carter

“Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes…

— Patricia Hickman

I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be…

— Anonymous

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...…

— Stephen King

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have…

— Adam Rapp

I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then…

— Brenda Russell

About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

— Rolonda Watts

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

— Chinua Achebe

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

— Anderson Cooper

“A prose work of some length that has something wrong with it.”

— Randall Jarrell

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

— Danielle Trussoni

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

— Lois Lowry

“The fuel for imagination comes from the feeling in your heart.”

— Charles A. Cornell

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”

— Amit Kalantri

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

— Walter Kirn

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

— Sara Shepard

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

— Jorge Semprun

“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

— Clive Cussler

Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One

— Meg Cabot

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

— Augustus De Morgan