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Writing Quotes by Robert McKee
- To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
- If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum…
- Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what…
- When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're…
- We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.
- All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
- God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over…
- Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
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