Writing Quotes
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I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
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Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.
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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Novel writing wrecks homes.
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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
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Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
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Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
