Writing Quotes

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

What writing does is to reveal.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

I love writing for the screen.

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.