Writing Quotes

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I started writing stories as a child.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.