Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.
I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.
When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.
No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.
For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.
If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.
Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.
Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.
Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.
When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.
I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.
I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.
The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.