Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

James Schuyler

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Julie Taymor

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Andrzej Wajda

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

C. S. Forester

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

George Will

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Federico Fellini

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

Leon Uris

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

W. Somerset Maugham

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

Richard Donner

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Frank McCourt

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

John Barton

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

John Barton

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

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

David Herbert Lawrence

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

Neil Jordan

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

William Morris

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Anne Stevenson

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Naguib Mahfouz

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Judith Rossner

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

Pierre de Coubertin

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas Keneally

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Roald Dahl

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Kathy Acker

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Wole Soyinka

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Rose Tremain

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Terry Southern

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Matt Groening

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

Theodore Sturgeon

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Leslie Fiedler

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.