Writing Quotes
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.