Quotes About Writing

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.