Writing Quotes
-
I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing as well - ultimately, I am a storyteller.
Del Shores
-
I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.
Claire Cameron
-
I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em.
Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.
Keith Matthew Thornton
-
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
Jack Prelutsky
-
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
Gary Shteyngart
-
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy
-
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
Aimee Bender
-
I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
Gabrielle Aplin
-
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton
-
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
Iris DeMent
-
I think writing gives me creative freedom.
Marley Dias
-
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
