Quotes About Writing

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.