Writing Quotes

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

I took a lot of writing courses.

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

I just want to keep writing music.

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.