Writing Quotes
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
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I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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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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From my most unnoticed actions,
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I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
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Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.
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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
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To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.
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Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
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For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
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You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.
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My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
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When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.
