Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

John Green

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

John Steinbeck

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

John Steinbeck

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

John Waters

With writing, we have second chances.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Joseph Heller

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Joss Whedon

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Joss Whedon

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Joss Whedon

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Joss Whedon

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Joss Whedon

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Jules Renard

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