Writing Quotes
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I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
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When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.
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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
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I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, to make our own films more modern.
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I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
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I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
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All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
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As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
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I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
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I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
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For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.
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I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.
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I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
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I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.
