Writing Quotes

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I'm going to quit writing.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.