Writing Quotes

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.