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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.