Writing Quotes

• When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Reading
  • Voice
  • Stories

• I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Home
  • Novel
  • Nervous

• One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Writing
  • Including

• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Years

• If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Fake
  • Passionate

• Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Book
  • Feel
  • Made

• Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Involved

• By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Hair

• I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Writing
  • Environment

• I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Crazy

• I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Writing
  • Novel

• We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Complicated

• I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • School

• I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Feels

• No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Writing
  • Helping
  • Teach

• I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Book
  • Morning
  • Praying

• The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Laughing

• It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Writing
  • Democratic

• Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

  

  Carlos J. Cortes
  • Writing
  • Loses

• I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing

• The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Interest

• I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Publishing

• The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Directors

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