Quotes About Writing

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.

but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.

You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

All the talented and smart actors, they get it: as soon as it comes out of their mouth, they know if it's right or wrong. If the writing has a particular voice, they get it, and they can hit it.

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world.

A lot of people were moved to write after September 11th. It had to affect us all in a way.

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

Dolph writing movies. Dolph into fashion.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.