About Writing Quotes

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.

I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.