Writing Quotes · Page 631

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

— Anonymous

“... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.”

— Katherine Mansfield

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

— Jenny Holzer

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

— Lily Allen

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

— Aristide Briand

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

— Ezra Pound

“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”

— William Stafford

“Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality--Poor, Hungry and Driven.”

— Trish Jackson

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never…

— Sarah Dessen

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the…

— Ice Cube

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

“And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.”

— Fish

“If your mind jumps to crazy story ideas from little things you see all around you, you might be a writer.”

— Thomas Wilson

There is something special about being an actor and able to bring somebody's visualisation - director, storywriter and script writer - into…

— Diana Penty

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this…

— John Sayles

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage…

— August Wilson

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and…

— Fernando Pessoa

I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a…

— Michael Shannon

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the…

— Joe Wright

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not…

— Michael Salu

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used…

— William Monahan

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts…

— Nilo Cruz

Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these…

— Naomi Wolf

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if…

— Taylor Swift

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

— Joanne Harris

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

— Alice Childress

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

— Elmore Leonard

“A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.”

— John Katzenbach

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”

— Amy Joy

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

— Shawn Crahan

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

— Jonathan Franzen

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

— Min Jin Lee

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

— Harper Lee