Writing Quotes · Page 544

“There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

— Edgar Wright

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

— Neal Asher

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

— Diana Gabaldon

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

— Masanobu Fukuoka

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

— Len Wein

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a…

— John Gardner

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical…

— Anthony Hopkins

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not…

— Joy Williams

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,…

— Albert Camus

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much…

— Brian Aldiss

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau…

— Truman Capote

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have…

— Khushwant Singh

The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted… I find myself…

— Harold Pinter

Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of…

— Bruce Cockburn

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in…

— Terry Pratchett

To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won.…

— Karen Walton

Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real…

— Carolyn Custis James

“What happens when the YA thriller writer heroine tries to get thru airport security with her research notes in her bag? :…

— Jill Shalvis

I know there is gender imbalance in the spec fic field, and it concerns me very much. We live in a gender-biased…

— Vandana Singh

Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look…

— Susan Orlean

I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.

— Barrie Keeffe

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

— William Zinsser

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

— Ray Bradbury

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

— Nizar Qabbani

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

— China Mieville

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

— Rich Mullins

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

— Paul Feig

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

— Jill Scott

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

— Mark Linkous

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

— Jack Kerouac

“But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.”

— Isabel Huggan

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

— Jon Spaihts

I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.

— Jed Mercurio