About Writing Quotes

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

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.

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

When you can't create you can work

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

Your library is your portrait.

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

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of the all ages label, but I keep a wider audience in mind.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.