Writing Quotes

• I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Women
  • School

• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Girl
  • Understanding
  • Childhood

• Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Trust

• I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Theory

• Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Matter

• I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • May
  • She
  • Experience

• I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'

  

  Kay Cannon
  • People
  • Writing

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Song

• Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

  

  Lianne La Havas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Song

• Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Think

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Tennis
  • Bread
  • Baking

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Goals

• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • World
  • Writing
  • Hero

• The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Character
  • Tree
  • Jobs

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Night
  • Day

• I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Real
  • Situation

• I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Trust

• I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Family
  • Know
  • Part

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