Writing Quotes · Page 683

“The best way to write is to let the words breathe onto the page from the soul.”

— Mary Krome

“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”

— Dan Kennedy

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

— Alfred Lansing

For me, writing the 'X-Men' was easy - is easy. I know these people, they're my friends.

— Chris Claremont

“Writing and prayer are both hopeful leaps into the darkness.”

— Ed Cyzewski

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

— Lemon Andersen

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

— Gustave Flaubert

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should…

— Milton Berle

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd…

— Sinead O'Connor

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to…

— Junot Diaz

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing…

— Anonymous

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first…

— Dorothy Parker

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose…

— Lauren Mayberry

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had…

— Egerton Brydges

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has…

— Aimee Bender

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of…

— Katie Wech

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I…

— Scott Michael Foster

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are…

— Larry Brooks

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first…

— Neil Simon

There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate…

— David Duchovny

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and…

— Rick Yancey

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.

— Mostafa A

All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.

— Ron White

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

— Sara Sheridan

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

— Andrew Dominik

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

— Anthony Mackie

“It's not often you find someone who is a good friend and good writer, Charlotte was both.”

— E

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

— Joan Armatrading

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

— John Irving

“Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

— Mark Frost

Im singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

— Cheryl Hayashi

“Writing is a part of life that has to be explored.”

— P.S. Winn