About Writing Quotes

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

An author departs; he does not die.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.