Writing Quotes
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Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
Gerrit Noordzij -
Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
Ray Bradbury
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The only reason to write is from love.
Stephen Sondheim -
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.
Chang-Rae Lee -
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Stephen Fry -
Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
Elena Ferrante -
I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
Dolly Parton -
A day without writing was a little death.
Ray Bradbury
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I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
Esther Renay Dean -
I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love and what makes us godly. And then if you read between the lines of all the same books, you always see the human influence in the writing... it's not all about religiousness, it's about spirituality.
Carlos Mencia -
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
Stephen Fry -
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury -
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Ray Bradbury -
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
Sue Grafton
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There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.
Alice Mattison -
Write what you love and love what you write.
Ray Bradbury -
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
Ray Bradbury -
I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
Judy Blume -
Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.
Renny Harlin -
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
Carson McCullers
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For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
Sara Shepard -
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.
Ray Bradbury -
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
Michael Shannon -
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
Studs Terkel