Writing Quotes · Page 60

I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.

— Jessica St. Clair

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

— Daniel Keys Moran

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

— Mason Cooley

I've never had a written script.

— Don Rickles

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You never get over the fear of writing.

— Maya Angelou

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

— Analeigh Tipton

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

— Lights

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

— Blueface

“Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.”

— Chrys Fey

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” ― Mark Twain”

— Russell Blake

I often wonder, What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing K .

— Anonymous

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

— Teri Garr

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

— Anonymous

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

— Aaron Sorkin

My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few…

— Jeff Cardoni

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

— Elias Canetti

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way…

— Mark Nepo

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we…

— Paul Auster

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor.…

— Wallace Shawn

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and…

— Joy Harjo

I'll only work on TV shows that have a 'Sookie' on them! Those are the only shows that will cast me. And…

— Todd Lowe

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on…

— Dr. Seuss

The key research I usually apply that allows me to understand the roles that I take on, starts with the script in…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one…

— Martin McDonagh

It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes…

— Rich Robinson

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that…

— Jane Campion

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way…

— Wong Kar-wai

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

— Anne Lamott

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

— Maxwell Perkins

“History is written by the survivors.”

— Gareth Johnson

“Contemplation + action = breakthrough”

— Lada Ray

Style is to forget all styles.

— Jules Renard

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

— David Foster Wallace

“Words both written and read are my passion.”

— Leslie Austin

I'd never write off a whole sex.

— Andrea Leadsom