Writing Something Quotes

44 Writing Something quotes by 43 unique authors

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not… — Meg Cabot
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. — Danny Elfman
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway
The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully… — Harlan Ellison
As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I… — Alanis Morissette
What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel is supposed to… — Christopher Nolan
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. — John Irving
It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock. — Thom Yorke
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's… — Maurice Sendak
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and… — Robert Caro
I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character… — Mark Millar
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing… — Charles Dickens
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten… — Leonard Bernstein
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after… — Ian Mcewan
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and… — Jess Walter
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what… — Roscoe Mitchell
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares… — Adam Pascal
The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am… — Christopher Durang
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready… — Julie Ann Dawson
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. — Gavin Bryars
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing… — Steven Moffat
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. — Quentin Tarantino
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall. — Stevie Wonder

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