Writing Quotes

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.

I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.