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Writing Quotes by Stephen Fry
- I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
- I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
- My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
- Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
- You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work…
- Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go…
- I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay,…
- I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are…
- I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth…
- Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
- Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap…
- We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things…
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