Writing Quotes

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• 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
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Pressure

• Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Book
  • Exercise
  • Dying

• I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Art
  • Earth

• I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • High
  • Day
  • Water

• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.

  

  Penny Jordan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Discipline

• You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • People
  • Writing

• I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Rest
  • Hours

• Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Unique

• A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Business
  • Think
  • Pathological

• There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Training

• I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • World
  • Now

• When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

  

  Philip Selway Radiohead
  • Writing
  • Couple

• Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Book
  • Success
  • Funny

• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Perception

• I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • School
  • Learning
  • Study

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • Writing
  • Brother

• There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

  

  James Patterson
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Collaboration

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