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Writing Quotes by Nora Ephron
- We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on…
- I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free…
- I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant,…
- I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
- I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your…
- The hardest thing about writing is writing.
- Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It…
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