Writing Quotes

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.