Quotes About Writing

We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.

I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'

The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.

In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction.

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.

I had been a zealous writer of journals my whole life, and beginning my newspaper column gave me a huge sense of purpose while enabling me to understand my own emotions by reading them in black and white.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when I began writing articles for newspapers back home about life in New York. This interest took over, and I moved from painting to writing.

My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

For 30 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books on the Dallas Cowboys' dynasties of the '70s and '90s, wrote about Michael Jordan in Chicago and Barry Bonds in the Bay Area, even wrote columns for ESPN.com from 2004 to 2006.