Writing Quotes
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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
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Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
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Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.
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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?
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After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.
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As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.
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To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
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I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.
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It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
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You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
