Writing Quotes
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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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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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I do a lot. I don't like to sit still. I am pretty spontaneous. I like to cook a lot. I like to eat. I like to workout, surf, read, write, and create. I am always working on a couple of projects that I always have and need to put more time into.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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Write what you care about.
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The only reason to write is from love.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
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It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
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I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
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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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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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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 write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
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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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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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A day without writing was a little death.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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I write about one of my bills that says pharmacists cannot be doctors. They cannot determine what they will or will not sell, and you find that many pharmacists will not sell birth control. The movement has gone not just against the access of reproductive rights to abortion; the movement has gone to birth control. They're going after birth control.
