Writing Quotes · Page 668

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

— Alan Lightman

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

— Zooey Deschanel

“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day…

— Stephanie Michel

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

— Tori Amos

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

— Tim Heidecker

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life:…

— Jane Fallon

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took…

— Mitch Albom

“There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.”

— Sara Gran

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of…

— Alden Bell

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like…

— Ryan Murphy

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party,…

— Jill Clayburgh

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.…

— Morgan Parker

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century…

— Rebecca Miller

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape…

— Harlan Coben

The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time,…

— Brian Jacques

My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a…

— Connie Wanek

I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If…

— Udo Kier

“At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look…

— Annie Dillard (Author

I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you…

— Noel Fielding

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters.

— Sharon Needles

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

— Zoe Foster Blake

“Don't aspire to be a writer, because you are already a writer”

— Clara Wake

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

— Steve Rushin

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

— Michael Morpurgo

“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.”

— Jenny Hayworth

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

— Alice Hoffman

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

— Diane Mott Davidson

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

— Jimmy Breslin

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

— Stanley Schmidt

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

— Noah Cyrus

I only want to write a song with the people who want to write a song with me.

— LP