Writing Quotes
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It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
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I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.
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So many things inspire me to write, that’s really hard to put into words. Usually some form of chaos or discomfort propels me into a writing mode.
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Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
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I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
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I do really well when a challenge is put in front of me. I don't just wake up and write. I like being forced to make decisions on the spot. I think that's why I've done so many things as a freelancer.
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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 have a writing addiction.
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I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.
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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
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It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
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There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.
