Writing Quotes
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I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.
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I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
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I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
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Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
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If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.
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It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
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I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.
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I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
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As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."
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Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
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If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
