Writing Quotes

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

You have to go where the good writing is.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?