Writing Quotes

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.