About Writing Quotes

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I'm a soul maker. I write songs. I'm making cartoon shows. I'm planning on putting stuff out myself on my own, on a TV station online. I'm not limiting myself. I'm doing it all at once.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or not which is for Amazon.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

Years passed and I hadn't really done much writing. Other than the fact that I'm constantly developing new shows, writing up proposals and stuff.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

Writing makes me happy.

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.