Writing Quotes

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.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.