Quotes About Writing

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

We must be capable of writing our own history.

'Whoops!' was a spin-off from 'Capital.' I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere.

I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more exciting to me that way.

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Direction has always been on the cards, and I love writing.

When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children because that's what I cared about and read about. But I never did.

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Writing is my main interest; it is where my heart is. I always want to continue writing. Apart from that, I enjoy casting and hopefully want to direct too.