Writing Quotes

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.