Writing Quotes · Page 659

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

— David LaChapelle

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

— Robert Breault

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

— Robert Crais

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

— Ben Bova

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the…

— Meryl Streep

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest…

— J. K. Rowling

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

— Emma Forrest

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never…

— Gail Simone

Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that,…

— Kyle Mooney

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and…

— Elie Wiesel

“During his long career as an agitator, Hitler had studied the effects of herd-poison and had learned how to exploit them for…

— Aldous Huxley

“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to…

— Edith Wharton

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on…

— Paul Robeson

Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address…

— Garrett Hedlund

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff…

— Jeff Tweedy

One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason…

— Mike Bartlett

“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can…

— William Faulkner

But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why…

— Horton Foote

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

— Tony Hillerman

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

“Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...”

— Belle Whittington

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

— Roy Peter Clark

I've always written about stuff I have gone through.

— Adam Gontier

“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

— Patton Oswalt

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

My mom was always writing me notes to get me out of stuff.

— Adam F. Goldberg

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.

— John Caples

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

— Jeon Yeo-been