What Is Writing Quotes

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

Exercise and writing are so therapeutic to me. I try to write every day and I make it a huge priority to find time to work out, even if that means taking a spin class at 7am before work.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

You don't write. You get out of the way.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

Books in your head help no one.