Writing Quotes

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

I need to write to be happy.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.