Writing Quotes · Page 546

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

— Aubrie Sellers

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

— Mick Foley

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

— Wole Soyinka

“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.”

— Ken Scott

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

“Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.”

— Andy Hollandbeck

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

— Jeff Baena

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

— Steve Martin

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form.…

— Jeff Cooper

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so…

— Sally Schneider

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

— Michael Chabon

The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and…

— Lobsang Tenzin

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I…

— Eugene Green

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen…

— Roman Coppola

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible.…

— Diana Nyad

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and…

— Marianne Williamson

I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't…

— Cameron Crowe

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not…

— Todd Solondz

An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the…

— Julia Cameron

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…

— William Shakespeare

“If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what…

— John Irving

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite…

— Stephen Dunn

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

— Karin Slaughter

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

— Jan Smuts

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“You know why I write? Because paper can't tell me to SHUT UP.”

— Ksenia Anske

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

— Josh Billings

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

— Cynthia Weil

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

— Biz Stone

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

— Ruth Ware

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

— Neal Shusterman

“Life is much worse than anything I could write about.”

— M.C. O'Neill

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

— Emile M. Cioran

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.”

— Robert Galbraith