Quotes About Writing

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Novel writing is solitary work.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.