Writing Quotes

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

Writing is a lonely business.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I really, really like writing songs.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.