Writing Quotes

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

Writing is the beast unto itself.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.