Writing Quotes · Page 691

Both writing and thinking, like children, require plenty of patience till growing up.

— Mariana Fulger

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

— Donald McKay

In the marriage, dialogues and sounds of the woman are written and directed by the man.

— Vikrant Parsai

So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.

— Lauren Weisberger

“...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...”

— John Geddes

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

— Amit Ray

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so…

— Zoe Kazan

I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No…

— Laura van den Berg

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

— Winifred Mary Letts

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a…

— Virginia Woolf

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity…

— Ann Voskamp

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him…

— Samuel Johnson

All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line,…

— Giles Coren

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to…

— Jonathan Anderson

All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called…

— Truman Capote

When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet,…

— Dave Barry

I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family…

— Joe Walsh

I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm…

— Evan Daugherty

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought…

— Alice Munro

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice…

— David Suchet

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a…

— Ken Liu

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a…

— Jim Beaver

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

I self-edit all the time when Im writing. I enjoy reading the story over and over, tweaking it as I go.

— Stephenie Meyer

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

— Charli XCX

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

— Peter Hambleton

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

— Jimmy Webb

“Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

— Bobby McFerrin

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

— Samuel Beckett

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

— Eric Idle