Writing Quotes

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Terrence McNally
- Writing
- Play
- Rules
On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.

Gabrielle Bernstein
- Writing
- Stress
- Pieces

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

Carolyn Hart
- Writing
- Heart
- Book
When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

Kareem Mortimer
- Character
- Speak
- Justify
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

William Shakespeare
- War
- Earth
- Eye
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

Joanne Rowling
- Book
- Desire
- Persistence
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

Simone de Beauvoir
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Erica Jong