Writing Quotes

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.