About Writing Quotes

I want to write, act, and direct!

I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or personal or anything but where I'm at in the moment. But I can see it sort of after I finish.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Writing forces consciousness.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an expert on one thing, and I am an expert on this person, and so I write about it.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

I can write songs without a guitar.

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.