Writing Quotes
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
Eudora Welty -
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
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
Ray Bradbury -
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
Ray Bradbury -
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
Studs Terkel -
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
Tony Gilroy -
You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.
Carrie Fisher -
Give yourself time to get better.
Sue Grafton
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
Dolly Parton -
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
Lois McMaster -
My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.
Thomas Hood -
I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
Carrie Fisher -
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 -
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
Chad Harbach
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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
Michael Ian Black -
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
Stephen Fry -
I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
Carrie Brownstein -
Good directing is good writing and good casting.
Robert Zemeckis -
You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury
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If you watch wrestling like I do, you watch for the wrestling. There's so much talking. There's some 'twit' back there with a pencil behind his ear writing down all these things for wrestlers to say.
Bret Hart -
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
Ed McBain -
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
Carrie Brownstein -
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe