Quotes About Writing

I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never thought I would be writing one.

We already tried writing musicals. Sometimes that failure can become a cause for us. We had so much passion for the idea of doing a movie musical that it finally happened.

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

I put my soul into every book I write.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.