Writing Quotes
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Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Newhart,' and 'Coach,' and sometimes I'd feel like I didn't belong.
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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
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Writing this record was the first time we felt really at home in a long time
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I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
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I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
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I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
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If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.
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I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.
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To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.
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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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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
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The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
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I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.
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The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
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Who's the dummy writing this show?!
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.
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I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
