Writing Quotes

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

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

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.