Writing Quotes - Page 995

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you a positive listing on your credit report - even though you haven't paid the full amount. Get this agreement in writing.

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

I wish I had more time to write.