Writing Quotes · Page 582

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

— M. Night Shyamalan

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”

— Nazım Hikmet

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

— Anton Chekhov

“Writer’s block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.”

— Archana Kapoor Nagpal

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

— Paul Dano

“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do”

— Maureen Tuohy

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what…

— Eric Idle

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will…

— Amanda Peet

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was…

— Liza Dalby

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have…

— Deb Caletti

“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a…

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the…

— Alfred Nobel

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

— David Lowery

My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them…

— Sarah Millican

I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I…

— Raymond Buckland

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason…

— J. Michael Straczynski

“Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent…

— Chris Prentiss

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a…

— Gopi Krishna

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden…

— Larry Gelbart

“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking…

— Ariana Reines

“You'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love.…

— Jude Deveraux

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

— Michel Faber

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

— Dorothy Allison

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne

A dancer dances.A writer writes. A singer sings. What do you do? Know thyself.

— Tassel Daley

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

— Wyclef Jean

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

“Who inspires me to write? My clone. I just want him to appreciate me as a person.”

— Jarod Kintz

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

— Josh Turner

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

— Aaron Sorkin

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I write a lot of shows with outcasts in the lead. Think of Elphaba.

— Stephen Schwartz

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

— Kevin Smith

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

— Graham Greene

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

— Helen Hodgman

“It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”

— Voltaire