Writing Quotes

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

Paula Malcomson
- Great
- Writing
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Callie Khouri
- Writing
- Women
- Feel

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Andrew Pyper
- Up
- Writing
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.

Kat Edmonson
- Life
- Remember
- Song
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Writing
- Rules
- Three
I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

Mandy Moore
- Time
- Mind
- Lyrics
There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary way of distributing what they talk about is through blogs and on the web. The line between professional and amateur criticism will become increasingly blurred. The problem here is that if you want to do this for a living, you have to be able to earn a living doing it.

Terry Teachout
- People
- Problem
- Criticism
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

Jayne Anne Phillips
- Up
- Time
- Work