Writing Quotes
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You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
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Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
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It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.
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Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.
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When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.
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I'd love to write full time. But it's not something that is due to me because I'm a writer. Times are very hard for doing the thing you love, but the payoff for not having much money is that you love your job. A balance would be good. But yes, given infinite funds, or a guaranteed regular income of some kind, I'd happily shut myself away and write stories for the rest of what I've got in me.
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
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I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.
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I've used pseudonyms for various reasons. In my earliest days I was writing too much, and needed to shift some of the product over to other front men. I've also done it to establish the different tones of the different writings: Stark doesn't write very much like Westlake at all.
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Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.
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You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.
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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.
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When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.
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Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.
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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.
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Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
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My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.
