Quotes About Writing

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.