Writing Quotes

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.