Writing Quotes
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In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
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I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.
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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.
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I really didn't think about song writing.
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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
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The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.
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I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.
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I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
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Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!
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Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.
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It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
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When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
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I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
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A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.
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criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
