I write Quote by Giles Coren Download Open image “The way I write possibly shouldn't be turned on serious things.” — Giles Coren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare I write Possibly Serious Things Way Writing
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection. We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at home more… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be almost spreadable!… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image