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Writing Quotes by Tana French
- Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to…
- I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
- I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set…
- I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had…
- I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what…
- If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely…
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