Writing Quotes

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I'm going to quit writing.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.