Quotes on writing

“If I waited until I felt like writing, I’d never write at all” Anne Tyler

“Dare to tell the smallest of stories If you want to generate large emotions ” William Zinger

“The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one” Sid Caesar

“The object of art is to give life a shape” William Shakespeare

”Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”  Audrey Hepburn

“If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you – it will come out of that wall” Anton Tšehov

“What we need is more women writers, writing to older women” Kathleen Turner

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt” Sylvia Plath

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes” Agatha Christie

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word” Margaret Atwood

“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, “It’s in the script” Hitchcock

“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?” Joan Didion

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time” Lewis Carroll

“It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling” Khalil Gibran

“You cant’t tell any kind of story without having some kind of theme, something to say between the lines” Robert Wise

“One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story” Spalding Gray

“Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another” Studs Terkel

“All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write” Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Your greatest creation is always going to be your life’s story” Jonathan Harris

“The actor is supposed to ‘beat the page’, the proper humility in the writer is to leave room for that” David Milch

“There is no “writer’s lifestyle.” All that matters is what you leave on the page” Zadie Smith

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out” Alfred Hitchcock

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven” Cormac McCarthy

“I’ve always been a writer, I’ve always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting” Diablo Cody

“If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach” Hitchcock

“I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue” Quentin Tarantino

“If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story “Barbara Greene

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms” Muriel Rukeyser

“Inside each of us is a natural born storyteller just waiting to be released” Robin Moore

“Stories are how we learn” Bill Mooney and David Holt

“The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one” Sid Caesar

“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master” Ernest Hemingway

“What I had to do was work… To work is the only thing…” –Ernest Hemingway

“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it” Tennessee Williams

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them” Orson Scott

“The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little…” Raymond Chandler’

“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it” Jack Kerouac

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed” Dorothy Parker

“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own” Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” C. S. Lewis