Writing Quotes

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of Coke. Where's the can of Coke now?

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

I can write a book in probably three months.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

Writing is seduction.

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.