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Writing Quotes by Joss Whedon
- If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene,…
- If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great…
- If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till…
- Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand…
- I write to be the characters that I am not.
- I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and…
- It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I…
- I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore…
- I write to give myself strength.
- There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story…
- If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when…
- I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so…
- Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
- Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
- Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be…
- I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in…
- Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of…
- People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know…
- People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone…
- Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
- I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid…
- All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause…
- Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
- Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
- You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.
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