Writing Quotes
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I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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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 don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
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Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
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Writing is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't do it.
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I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.
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Sometimes when I'm writing a superhero story I wonder if they really have to punch each other in the face. Is that really going to solve anything? I feel the same way sometimes when I watch episodes of Law & Order. I'm like, "Yeah, right. You found the sex offender and now everything is fine." TV is big on closure, but I think closure is horseshit in real life. I'm still haunted by stuff I did in my teen years when I think about it too much.
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.
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I started writing as soon as I started reading.
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I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
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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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Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.
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I never imagined I'd write a book.
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I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
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I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.
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Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.
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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
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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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Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
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Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
