About Writing Quotes

I write novels and other things.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.

I tend to write more when I travel.

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively-and there were a lot of choices-writing songs was king.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Writing is still on my slate.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

I write out of defiance.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.