Writing Quotes

• There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Writing
  • Family

• There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Extraordinary
  • Workers
  • Exceed

• Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Challenges

• I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Writing
  • Show
  • Participate

• Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Discipline

• In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

  

  Bill Walsh
  • Writing

• I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Interested
  • Pieces

• I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Writing
  • Learning

• My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.

  

  Khalid
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Singing

• At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Design

• I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

  

  John Entwistle The Who
  • Writing
  • Book

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Success
  • Day
  • New

• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Style
  • Bible

• I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Music
  • Writing

• When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing Marvel's 'Batman,' and Reverend Achebe became sort of the Joker to Panther's Batman.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Black
  • Angry
  • Batman

• The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Voice
  • Television
  • Radio

• Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Differences

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.

  

  Halsey
  • Thought
  • Witty
  • Sarcastic

• There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Reason
  • Celebrity
  • No Reason

• Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Character
  • Political
  • Powerful

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