Writing Quotes

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.