Quotes About Writing

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.