Writing Quotes
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You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
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Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.
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Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.
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There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.
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Yes, Gonzales said theres a contract, ... But he did not explain it and said, Sir, Ill just put this in writing. Ill report to you so we will know what it is that can be divulged as far as that particular contract is concerned.
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A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.
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The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
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I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.
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I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
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Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
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I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.
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I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.
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I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.
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I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time.
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
