Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.
It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.
The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.
I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.
In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success
People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.
It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.
If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.
I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.