Writing Quotes

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.

Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Writing is a supernatural thing.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.