All Quotes

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
‐‐ Hudson Stuck

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor

The writer studies literature, not the world.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
‐‐ Alfred A. Knopf

The writer works in a lonely way.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
‐‐ Betty White

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.
‐‐ George Dzundza

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.
‐‐ Sean Hayes

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
‐‐ Jewel

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
‐‐ Matt Groening

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
‐‐ James Salter

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me.
‐‐ Poppy Harlow

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
‐‐ Christopher Cross

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
‐‐ Alvin Dark

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.
‐‐ John Updike

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
‐‐ Bjornstjerne Bjornson

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
‐‐ Mary Roberts Rinehart

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.
‐‐ Jessica Bird

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
‐‐ Anne Enright

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
‐‐ Hans Zimmer

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
‐‐ Stephan Pastis

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
‐‐ Tony Gilroy

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.
‐‐ James Salter

The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.
‐‐ Tony Earley

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.
‐‐ Miranda Richardson

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
‐‐ Enya

The writing of a series finale is horrible.
‐‐ Diane English

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.
‐‐ Suzan-Lori Parks

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
‐‐ Randy Owen

The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
‐‐ Ann Maxwell

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
‐‐ Chris Riddell

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
‐‐ Mick Jones

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
‐‐ Eminem

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.
‐‐ Bryan Batt

The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.
‐‐ James Salter