Writing Quotes · Page 646

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

— Haruki Murakami

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

— Rafael Casal

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

— Willie Nelson

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

— Stephen King

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,…

— Catherine Camus

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf,…

— John Updike

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

— Amos Oz

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts…

— Madonna Ciccone

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting…

— Janet Fitch

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to…

— Mindy Kaling

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and…

— Jason Bateman

It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as…

— Gail Sheehy

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to…

— Alexandra Fuller

“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much,…

— Lisa Schroeder

My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series…

— Sue Grafton

I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out…

— Mike White

I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world…

— Adam Ross

The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more…

— Eric Johnston

I think as he gets older, Quentin [Tarantino] is growing more and more into his directorial side, but the writer in him…

— Bun B

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

— Melanie Martinez

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

— Peter Frampton

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

— Xavier Dolan

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

— Tom Fletcher

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

— Dan Harmon

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench