Writing Quotes

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

There are no rules to writing a song.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.