Writing Quotes

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

Writing only leads to more writing.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.