Quotes About Writing

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.'

I'm not entirely sure why I write.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it's written that way.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

I envy guys who can write funny.

As a child I had a wild imagination; from the age of seven I'd sit and write epic stories.

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.