Writing Quotes · Page 90

“Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]”

— Le Figaro

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

— J. K. Rowling

“Write like you're running out of time...”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb

Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.

— Cillian Murphy

Writers are not meant for action.

— Manuel Puig

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.”

— Ernest Hemingway

LOm1lY I value the article post.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Oem Software

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

— Claire Messud

Phenomenal bredkaown of the topic, you should write for me too!

— Joeie

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

— Peter King

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

— Irvine Welsh

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write…

— William Monahan

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in…

— Shirley Jackson

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine…

— Gerald Asher

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

— Joe Dante

I had been writing songs from the age of 7 or 8 years old, and they were so bad. But it was…

— Raye

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it…

— Kim Smith

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with…

— Alton Brown

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the…

— Michele Jennae

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded…

— Michael Helm

The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should…

— Kay Coles James

That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them,…

— Lucas Mann

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected…

— Rob Corddry

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body…

— Bill Ayers

I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull…

— Ron Currie Jr

“America takes her writers too seriously.”

— Kingsley Amis

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

— Dorothy Allison

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

— Franz Kafka

I write my programs primarily for myself.

— Bill Budge

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

— Alexander Pope

I write to be the characters that I am not.

— Joss Whedon

You can't write something to please someone.

— Sean Durkin

I think of myself just as a writer.

— The-Dream