Writing Quotes
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In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.
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The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
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The writing is what's most important to me.
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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.
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Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
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I didn't want to write unless I could say, and think for myself. I looked to peers that I not only respected but those that supported that. I finished becoming who I am today by sticking up for myself as a voice, but that is in part thanks to the huge role the good guys I chose to work with played in my professional development. Some really terrific human beings who loved horror welcomed me with open arms.
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If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.
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To me, making a CD is like writing a book.
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I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
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Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
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I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
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When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
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I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
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Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.
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I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.
