Writing Quotes

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.