Quotes About Writing

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.

And now you'll be able to sail right through to the end." "I've already written the end. It was the beginning I couldn't write." "The story you just told me is part of your beginning?" "It is the myself that predates what I am now.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.

I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

'Cemetery Lake' was an interesting book to write.

Doctor Who' has always been a landmark show, but I feel it's becoming an even more landmark show due the stories that are being written, and the actors being cast to represent them.

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.

I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.