Writing Quotes

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.