Writing Quotes

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

Writing is a key differentiator. I've used it for 14 years. Writing will not just lead to differentiation. Writing is the credibility you need to create buyer confidence

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move stuff around in Photoshop, I put together a really quick CSS doc making my changes.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.