Writing Quotes

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.