About Writing Quotes

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Write til your fingers bleed.

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?