Writing Quotes
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When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
Thomas Pablo Croquet
Phoenix
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Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
William Lewis Safir
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
Karin Slaughter
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Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.
Bibi Bourelly
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I've always loved writing.
Lily Collins
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To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
C. Thomas Howell
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I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
Cullen Bunn
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My job, originally, was to write blog posts for their 'HubSpot' blog. They have a business model built on content. Then I was writing e-books for them, and after I came back from L.A., they had this new plan to launch a podcast.
Daniel Lyons
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
Warren Farrell
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If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
Terry Brooks
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If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
Martha Gellhorn
