Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Jerry Spinelli

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Mark Haddon

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

Ty Segall

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Octavia E. Butler

The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.

Paul Babicki

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Paul Haggis

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Quentin Tarantino

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

Rayne Hall

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

Shannon Lynette

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Sara Sheridan

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Sting

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Sara Zarr

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

Tate Donovan

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Taylor Swift

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

Taylor Swift

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Theodore Sturgeon

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

Joss Whedon

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

Kelley Armstrong