Writing Quotes

• To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Writing

• I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Literature

• Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

  

  Mal Peet
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Style

• I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Writing

• I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes.

  

  Lee Gutkind
  • True
  • Age
  • Political

• 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
  • Writing

• I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Sad

• A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Asking

• We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can't just semi-like it. Getting to 'really like' is the part that takes the minute.

  

  Debra Granik
  • People
  • Money
  • Effort

• Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Writing

• Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Writing

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

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I had been writing professionally since 1988.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Been
  • Had

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Writing
  • Red
  • Act

• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Done
  • Islam

• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Music
  • Play
  • Movies

• I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Words

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

  

  Gene Fowler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.

  

  David Henrie
  • Writing

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