Writing Quotes · Page 542

“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.”

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room.

— Katie Dippold

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

— T. S. Eliot

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Live in the now and the how will take care of itself.”

— A.D. Posey

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm a huster, write it down, take a picture bitch print it.

— Lil Wayne

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

— Gail Godwin

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose…

— Richard LaGravenese

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world,…

— Steven Moffat

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are…

— Arthur Ransome

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole,…

— Nick Blaemire

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as…

— Jake M. Johnson

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were…

— Ellen Ullman

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go…

— John Trudell

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like…

— George Mastras

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must…

— Ma Jian

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so…

— Mary Russell Mitford

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can…

— Kate Voegele

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a…

— Philippe Garrel

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is…

— Rachel Bloom

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

“Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens.”

— Robert Ahanes

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

— Clifton Daniel

“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.”

— Margaret Atwood

Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

— Irvine Welsh

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

— Don Winslow

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

— Lauren Conrad

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.”

— Ksenia Anske

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War…

— Doris Lessing

“Blogging isn’t about publishing as much as you can. It’s about publishing as smart as you can.”

— Jon Morrow

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

— William Zinsser

“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.”

— Ksenia Anske

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

— Roberto Calvi