About Writing Quotes

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

The tears had turned to ink.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.