Writing Quotes

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

We really did it write it for the story but once you get into production, once you start doing this process certain things will jump out at you. Some shots will be more 3-D than others.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.