Writing Quotes

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.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.