Writing Quotes

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

There are no rules to writing a song.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.