Writing Quotes

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I read Write More, Sell More a few years ago and loved it.

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.