Writing Quotes
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces into a book.
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My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.
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Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
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Writing is still on my slate.
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Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
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I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
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You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.
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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
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'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing.
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Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
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Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.
