About Writing Quotes

When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.

I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

More people write poetry than read it.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

I don't write letters anymore.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

After so many deaths I live and write.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.