Writing Quotes

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.