Quotes About Writing

I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

I like writing love songs. I really like romantic poetry.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

If you're creating a story, it's a lovely sort of secret thing going on in your head.

I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying to get the arc of the story, of their relationship right.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I pretended to be Carrie Bradshaw while I wrote from my apartment.

Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

Rap lyrics are really the only thing I've ever written.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.