Writing Quotes
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
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Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.
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If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
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I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
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With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
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We've been writing a little, but the hardest thing about writing on the road is it's difficult to get deep and flush out an idea you always have to go do something.
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I started writing in 1948 - basically.
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I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
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You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
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Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.
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If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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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.
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When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.
