Writing Quotes

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.