Writing Quotes

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

Harry Connick, Jr.
- Writing
- Tragedy
- Terrible
All writing begins in the sea of experience.

Barry Lane
- Writing
- Experience

There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

Anne Bernays
- Writing
- Sense
- Surprise
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.

George C. Wolfe
- Writing
- Free
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Francine Prose
- Reading
- Learned
- Example
Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.

Christopher Meledandri
The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

Emily Yoffe
- People
- Problem
- Stories
I'm not sure that I have a favorite either on-screen or in the books! Whenever I'm writing, I'm always really excited to dive back into each character.

Sara Shepard
- Writing
- Character
- Book