Writing Quotes · Page 536

“Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.”

— Paul Bowles

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

— Isabella Rossellini

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

— Howard Nemerov

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

— Donna Jo Napoli

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

— Nicky Wire

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the…

— Charles Dickens

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes…

— George Sand

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even…

— Frank Ocean

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel…

— Matt de la Pena

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a…

— Hans Zimmer

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it…

— Christopher Owens

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're…

— Don DeLillo

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by…

— Erin Gruwell

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“I believe the greatest pleasure in writing is in the progressive artistry of it. Each project is an attempt to do better…

— Anonymous

“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a…

— Guillermo del Toro

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to…

— Dorothea Brande

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

— Anne Lamott

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

— Randall Robinson

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

— Kim Carnes

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

— Beverly Cleary

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

— Stephen J. Dubner

I really want to write, and it's the only thing I'm good at.

— Christopher Markus

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

— Natalie Goldberg

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

— Vera Farmiga

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

— Alberto Moravia

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

— Jill McCorkle

“Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.”

— Iain Cameron Williams

A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.

— Patricia Lee Gauch

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

— Hermione Gingold

I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

— Mark Foster

“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!" ~ Richard Curtis ~”

— Richard Curtis