Writing Quotes
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First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
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I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.
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I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.
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Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
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I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.
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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
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I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
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I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.
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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
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The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
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Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.
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Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
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One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.
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A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
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It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.
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With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
