Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.
I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.
To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.
When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.