Quotes of: Write Keyword

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Annie Dillard

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

Bob Greene

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Diane Keaton

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Gene Fowler

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Glen Hansard

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Jessi Colter

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Jim Harrison

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.

Michael Mann

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Nicholas Jarecki

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Rita Mae Brown

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

Raymond E. Feist

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Atonement

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Gilles Deleuze

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Gilles Deleuze

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Herman Melville

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Hilary Mantel

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Ludwig van Beethoven

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

Lauren Conrad

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Lee Child

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Mason Cooley

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

Matt Cameron