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Writing Quotes by David Nicholls
- At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
- I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly…
- She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks.…
- It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in…
- She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
- The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit…
- The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
- She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more…
- …she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
- I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the…
- Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue,…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov