Writing Quotes · Page 666

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

— Stephen King

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes

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

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

— Melvyn Bragg

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have…

— Andre Dubus

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have…

— Morgan James

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

— Elie Wiesel

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the…

— William Zinsser

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even…

— Paul Auster

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive…

— Francesca Lia Block

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from…

— Edward Hirsch

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first…

— Wally Lamb

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

— Michael Stuhlbarg

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

— Dr. Seuss

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

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

— Rich Robinson

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

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

The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it…

— Ryan Jarman

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

— Alice Mattison

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

— Albert Einstein

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

— Tom King

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

— Isaac Asimov

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

— Marilynne Robinson

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

— Meg Rosoff

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,

— P. W. Singer

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

— Edward P. Jones

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

— Gulzar

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

— Jerry Pournelle

If writing were a sport, I would totally have a six pack.

— Kaitlen Dearing