Quotes About Writing

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of the all ages label, but I keep a wider audience in mind.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

It takes me ages to write stuff.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.