Writing Quotes

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.