Writing Quotes

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I've always liked new writing.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I loved the process of writing.

I love 'Glee.' 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 okay to cry.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.