Anything Quotes

21518 Anything quotes by 9392 unique authors

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. — Ivana Trump
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. — Tina Fey
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult… — Ernest Hemingway
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer… — Trenton Lee Stewart
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. — William Hazlitt
The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent… — Lillian Hellman
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one… — Ernest Hemingway
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can… — Flannery O'Connor
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — Katherine Anne Porter
Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull. — Frank Robinson
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. — John Millington Synge
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is… — E L Doctorow
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your… — Toni Morrison
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on… — Agnes Obel
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic. — Edward Weston
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I… — Garry Winogrand

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