Writing Quotes
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
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There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
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I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
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I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.
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I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.
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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
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My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
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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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Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
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I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
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The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.
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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
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American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
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Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, "If that's your contribution to my day, I really don't need your impoliteness." I'm lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that.
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'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.
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Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
