Writing Quotes · Page 68

“Too many irons, not enough fire.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

Writing is a bit like being a god

— Charlie Higson

I love writing about young people.

— Stephanie Savage

I enjoyed writing speeches.

— Lauren Ridloff

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”

— Christina Baldwin

I don't write romance novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

— Mel Brooks

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

— Robert Zemeckis

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”

— Beth Revis

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

— Dan Futterman

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

— Jennette McCurdy

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”

— Mother Teresa

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons…

— Neal Brennan

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's…

— Stephen Stills

Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be…

— Zawe Ashton

I am the producer of the movie that I call my life, writer of my own script, director of my talent and…

— An Drew

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones…

— Amit Kalantri

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my…

— Brooke Fraser

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

— James Thurber

“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there…

— Ernest Hemingway

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year…

— Will Self

“I remembered all my years in the Philippines, my father fighting for his inherited land, my mother selling boggoong to the impoverished…

— Carlos Bulosan

I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about…

— Tate Taylor

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough…

— Lorraine Hansberry

I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live…

— Eliot Lewis

“ Boast of Quietness Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like…

— Justin Vernon

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just…

— Winona Ryder

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.

— Sara Sheridan

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

— Don Roff

I always try to write the best I can.

— S. E. Hinton

You don't write a book to show off.

— Tony Orlando

But I'm more scared of not writing.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

— Anthony Burgess

“My pen beats faster as I write with my heart”

— Munia Khan