Writing Quotes
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I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.
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I'm always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.
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Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
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I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
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The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.
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I enjoy writing.
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I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.
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Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
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Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
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When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.
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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
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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 plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.
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Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.
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If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.
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I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
