Writing Quotes

• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Work
  • Great
  • Live

• I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Science

• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Nothing

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Crying

• I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Writing
  • Funny

• My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Poetry

• The creative process doesn’t change much. When writing a song, you’re looking for melody, rhythm and words that people can relate to.

  

  Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
  • People
  • Song
  • Relate

• I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

  

  James Horner
  • Writing

• Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Easy
  • Said
  • Cynical

• I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Writing
  • Job

• I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Boy

• When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Help

• I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Truth

• My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Actors
  • Playwright
  • Hamptons

• However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

  

  Kenzaburo Oe
  • Up
  • World
  • Society

• I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Writing

• Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • People
  • Writing
  • Lonely

• The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Different
  • May
  • Song

• Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?

  

  Clark Blaise
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Partner

• I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

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