About Writing Quotes

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is, that's secondary.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

Your life informs your writing.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.