Writing Quotes

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.