Writing Quotes

• I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Ideas
  • Stories
  • Littles

• The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Success
  • Genius
  • Aim

• For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Luck

• I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Stop

• Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went into it and the millions of listens. Then you move away from it and you never see it again.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Children
  • Song
  • Moving

• It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • May
  • Experience
  • Bad

• Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mature

• To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Simple

• 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

• If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Writing
  • Imagination

• I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

  

  James Jones
  • Experience
  • Action
  • Reading

• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  

  Peter Temple
  • Music
  • Personality
  • Hero

• I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

  

  Brett Young
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Mindset

• Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Writing

• The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Done

• Quite frankly, several of the people who contributed to the article should be banned from coming near a keyboard until they have learned to engage in proper encyclopedia writing.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • Writing

• Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Interesting
  • Voice
  • Criticism

• Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Job
  • Reading
  • Taken

• I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Passion
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Character

• I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • May
  • Feeling
  • Fear

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