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Writing Quotes by John Sayles
- I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and…
- But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were…
- I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I…
- For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I…
- I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't…
- I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be.…
- I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty…
- If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
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