About Writing Quotes

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

I don't need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn't my style, because that's the only way I can grow up and grow out.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

I write my programs primarily for myself.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

God makes trees, he doesn't write books.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote ‘Killing Jesus,’ because I think I was directed to write that.

I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.