Writing Quotes

I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.

Cynthia Ozick
- God
- Writing
- Faith
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

Stephen Carter
- Book
- Hard
- Sells

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

Sandra Cisneros
Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

Saoirse Ronan
If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

Jennifer Egan
- Writing
- Book
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Derek Walcott
- Writing
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Jason Mraz
- Writing
- Song
- Difficult
Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

J. J. Abrams
- Work
- Long
- Friends