Writing Quotes · Page 575

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

— Ann M. Martin

“Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go.”

— Natalie Goldberg

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..!

— Sujit Lalwani

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

— Lord Byron

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

— Dar Williams

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

— Tori Amos

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial…

— Billy West

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great…

— Erich Hoeber

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

“I also once heard that if you have enough good ideas for three or four great novels, then what you probably have…

— Darren White

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me…

— Brian De Palma

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As…

— Brian Lumley

Killing Eve' was kind of the road for me as an art person, where you have this opportunity to work with so…

— Kim Bodnia

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that…

— Eloisa James

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend…

— R. A. Salvatore

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.…

— Graham Swift

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing…

— Noah Hawley

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good…

— Jonathan Kellerman

a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific…

— Katherine Paterson

While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional…

— Sarah Weinman

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me…

— Tom Robbins

Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write,…

— Joel Madden

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

— Henrik Ibsen

“A good writer is a word fertilizer, a thought sanitizer...”

— Anonymous

“I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write.”

— Wendy Stanphill

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

— Candace Bushnell

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

— Franz Grillparzer

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

— Ray Bradbury

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.”

— Gary Corby

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

— Tom Wolfe

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

— Clint Smith

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

— Norton Juster

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

— Justine Larbalestier

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

— James A. Michener

When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.

— David Cage