Writing Quotes

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.