Writing Quotes

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.