Writing Quotes
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I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.
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Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
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Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me.
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Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
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I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing.
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I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
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My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.
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I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.
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It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
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The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
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Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.
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But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really modern.
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Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
