Writing Quotes · Page 555

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

— Gerald Jonas

“Your worry days are over. You're a writer. Worry on paper.”

— Ksenia Anske

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

— John Cleese

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

— Stephen McCauley

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

— Jenny Han

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

— Markus Zusak

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realized I was a mediocre movie star at best.

— Diane Keaton

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

— Patricia MacLachlan

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when…

— Arlo Parks

I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

— Tucker Max

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is…

— Victor Hugo

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the…

— Dave East

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

— Leon Edel

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write…

— Ravi Subramanian

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to…

— Tyler Childers

“MICHAEL PILLER As soon as I started, I said, “I need to see every script, every abandoned story, and every submitted piece…

— Edward Gross

The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is…

— Peter Funt

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless…

— Rachel Cusk

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My…

— Miroslav Penkov

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are…

— Scott M. Gimple

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write…

— Serge Schmemann

But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line…

— Annie Proulx

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

— Sissy Spacek

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

— Robert Knepper

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

— Ilana Glazer

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

— David Grossman

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

“To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality”

— Samuel Colbran

“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”

— Robert Galbraith

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

“The best writers are usually the most voracious & diverse readers!”

— C.S. Dixon

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

— Robert Harris

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

— James Richardson

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

— Joss Whedon