Architecture Quote by William Devane

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

— Syd Barrett

Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it…

— Anonymous

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have…

— Marion Dane Bauer

“The greatest thing about being a writer is the fact you never have to learn lines - you get to write them! ”

— Neill Bartlett

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some really great…

— Adrian Pasdar

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

— Bruce Joel Rubin

When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.

— Frank Vincent

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes…

— Garrison Keillor

I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together and then…

— Adam Granduciel