Writing Quotes
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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
Taylor Sheridan
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Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.
Mark Margolis
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I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
Mark O'Donnell
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
Sappho
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I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
Sandra Cisneros
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
Jonathan Franzen
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
Dana Perino
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
Patrick Modiano
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'(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.'
Willie Nelson
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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
Chelsea Cain
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Candace Bushnell
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
D. J. MacHale
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
Watt Key
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
Waldemar Januszczak
