Re Writing Quotes

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I am not a writer except when I write.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

It is easy to write when you don't know how.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

Full purse makes no noise.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.