Writing Quotes
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When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
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The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.
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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
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I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
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When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
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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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Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
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I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.
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That's something that's really rare and special and what any actor would love - to have somebody that's specifically writing for you.
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If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading.
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
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[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."
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Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
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It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.
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I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
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I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
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Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
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I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.
