Writing Quotes

I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

Christopher McQuarrie
- Writing
To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'

Andrew Sean Greer

I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.

Tawni O'Dell
- Time
- True
- Process
Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to.

Cullen Bunn
- Writing
- Team
Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.

Isaac Asimov
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
- Different
- May
- Song
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

Maxim Gorky
- Thinking
- Book
- Song
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Jimmy Breslin
- Long
- Writing
- Boy