Writing Quotes · Page 690

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— Paul Engle

I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.

— Philipp Meyer

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

— Jay Sean

I am looking for different roles as many writers are coming up with the same kind of characters.

— Rao Ramesh

It's a fine motion picture up to the point where God finishes and the script writer takes over.

— Will Rogers

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

— James Patterson

I loved your article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Bookmarking

“logographos, a writer of speeches for others to use”

— Aristotle

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I…

— Ayad Akhtar

I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.

— Stan Lee

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and…

— Tom Stoppard

The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers.

— Bugzy Malone

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will…

— Chris Cleave

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself…

— Carrie Brownstein

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read…

— Celeste Ng

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the…

— Ansel Elgort

“If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth--something a lot of writers…

— June Casagrande

“I started keeping journals when I was fourteen and at last count had nearly a thousand. They come in all shapes and…

— Oliver Sacks

“Work—especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class—no longer…

— Gerald Howard

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the…

— Kevin Keck

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's…

— Stephen King

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This…

— David Morrell

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

— Robert Crais

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

— David LaChapelle

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

— David Cronenberg

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Twinkle Khanna

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Robert Breault

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

— Ruskin Bond

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”

— Gustave Flaubert

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

— Ryan North

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

“Felicia’s Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.”

— Will Schwalbe

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

— Matthew Stover

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

— Elmore Leonard

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor