Writing Quotes
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
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At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.
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My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.
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The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.
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I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose.
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Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
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It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
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I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
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I wear my pajamas. That's the thing I love most about writing. I don't get changed until I actually have to go out of the house. I'll write and take a late lunch or go to a coffee shop when I get where I can't stand the four walls anymore.
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
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Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always 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 found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
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My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
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With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.
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It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
