Writing Quotes

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Writing is the supreme solace.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.