About Writing Quotes

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

You write the script, and then you just go over it 400 times and make all the jokes better. It really is true. That's essentially the way it works.

In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.