Writing Quotes
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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All good writing comes out of aloneness.
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I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
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My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.
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All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
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There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
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Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
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I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
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Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
