Writing Quotes
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I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.
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I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
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I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
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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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You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.
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I think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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 you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
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I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
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Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
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I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.
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I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.
