Loved these writing quotes!

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?
Louis Malle - telling producers why he wanted John Guare around during the filming of ''Atlantic City''

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.
Alan Zweibel
from "Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story."

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment thereafter
Jessamyn West

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it.
Truman Capote

The first draft of everything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway

The writer who wants to learn how to use dialogue in the motion picture should try to make his story understandable without the spoken word.
Eugene Vale

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Toni Morrison

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
Rod Serling

Screenwriting," she once said, "is like writing in the sand with the wind blowing."
Frances Marion
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
Anaïs Nin

I shall live bad if I do not write and I shall write bad if I do not live.
Francoise Sagan

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
Paul Rudnick

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.
Mark Twain

Writers write about what obsesses them.
Anne Rice