Writing Quotes
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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
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I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.
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I love writing Scottish dialogue.
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I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
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Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
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I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.
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I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
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Ben Miller's writing has left a trail of clear and perfect images lasered permanently in my mind. His imagination is astounding in its breadth and detail, but it is the heart behind the words, the emotion he brings to the smallest moments, that makes me such an admirer of this writer and his work, and has me anxiously awaiting, and cheering for, the publication of River Bend Chronicle.
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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
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I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
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I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.
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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
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My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.
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Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
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Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.
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I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.
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Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
