Writing Quotes
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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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I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.
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I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
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I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
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The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
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But his life consisted, for the most part, of writing and reading. He wrote during the day, read at night, went to bed early, and did the same thing the next day.
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I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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I've been writing since I was really young.
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When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.
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Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.
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I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!
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For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
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I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.
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I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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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 that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word.
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Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
