Quotes About Writing

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11. And it's the central event of my lifetime, so I knew I had to write about that.

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

I wanted people to connect to me on that level where I can write about anything, but it would still make someone feel a certain way.

I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.