Writing Quotes

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Writing is the supreme solace.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.