Writing Quotes · Page 917

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found…

— B. J. Novak

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

— Christian Finnegan

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge…

— Cher Lloyd

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

— Manuel Puig

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell

When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts…

— Stacey Abrams

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write…

— Douglas Coupland

The real truth - like anything, you have an idea about something you might write and it changes. People reflect on it…

— Matt Ross

“Imagine a group of people all staring at writing on a wall, everyone congratulating one another on reading the words correctly. But…

— Anonymous

It was a natural progression for me to write about Millenials transitioning into management but I found myself getting emotional as I…

— Chip Espinoza

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the…

— Harry Crews

I’ll write down little lines, I always say, 'K.T.N.,' and I say that to my receivers and running backs and that means…

— Russell Wilson

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your…

— James Frey

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting…

— Ernest Hemingway

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's…

— Philip Pullman

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

— Lorene Scafaria

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

— Darren Aronofsky

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

— Herta Muller

Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's…

— John Edward

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think that might just be how it works to be an artist: you have to pick yourself up and write something…

— Eva Victor

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you…

— Juicy J

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good…

— Anita Shreve

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

— Sam Esmail

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to…

— Wole Soyinka

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I…

— Tim Gunn

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on…

— Linda Sue Park

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because…

— Charles Koch

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way…

— Herta Muller

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a…

— Donald Trump

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in…

— Joe Locke

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just…

— Errol Morris

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

— Raymond Carver

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave…

— Mohsin Hamid

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

— Rachel Weisz

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.…

— Jim Sturgess

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper…

— Joanne Harris

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing…

— Louis C. K

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that…

— Dean Koontz