About Writing Quotes

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

I love writing different things.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

I play the piano and write music.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.