Writing Quotes

• I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• [Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Job
  • Help
  • Fun

• I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Running

• Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • Reflection
  • Rising

• The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

  

  Colin Baker
  • Writing

• I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Government

• I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

  

  David Levithan
  • Writing
  • Words

• I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Writing

• My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Wake Up

• As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I never got a degree; I just started writing.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Writing

• Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Present
  • Poet

• I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Writing
  • Alone

• What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Done
  • Small
  • Style

• Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Introduction

• I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Every actor just wants good writing.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Good
  • Writing

• I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Working
  • Artists
  • Dancing

• A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

  

  E. B. White
  • Children
  • Way
  • Study

• When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Writing
  • Emotional
  • Sad

• Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Inspired

• One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

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