Writing Quotes

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

I don't exist without writing.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.