Writing Quotes

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

I always have to be writing.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.