Writing Quotes
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma.
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By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.
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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.
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The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
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It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.
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I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.
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I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
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It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.
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I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.
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Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.
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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.
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I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did a lot of literary translation in college. Translation is an art. But for sure writing has always been a part of how I think through my ideas.
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Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
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My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.
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The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.
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In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.
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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
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Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.
