Writing Quotes

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I used to love writing in my journal.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.