Writing Quotes
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Each one writes history according to his convenience.
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It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
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So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
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I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
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I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
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...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
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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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I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.
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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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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
