Writing Quotes

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Denis Leary
- Good
- Great
- Writing
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.

Ken Liu
- Writing
- Guy
- Pretty

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

C. S. Lewis
- Writing
- Real
- Interest
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

Tony Kushner
- People
- Together
- Period
'We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.''I’m aware of the problems,' she said. '‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.'

Ken MacLeod
- Music
- She
- Book
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

Lynn Coady
- Writing
- Sex
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

James Payn
- Men
- Writing
My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Don McLean
- Music
- Different
- Thinking