About Writing Quotes

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.

I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

I write in a rush of memory.

The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.

I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they'd write an arc if I'd do it.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I don't know why I write what I write.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews.

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammeled.