Writing Quotes
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Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
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Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
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From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?
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And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.
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The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and that seems to work better than filling up notebooks of what I think is really cool poetry, and try to put it on a song. That usually sounds like it's taped on.
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Everything I say about writing battles applies equally well in the boudoir.
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My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
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Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.
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When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
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My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
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In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series).
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There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
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The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.
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I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.
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As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.
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Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.
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I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.
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I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
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Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
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To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.
