Quotes About Writing

With great writing, there is great clarity.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I'm a conservative classical writer.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't about justice and equality.

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as tough as it is, I get so much more out of it. It's like climbing Mt. Everest.

There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was really happy about because he's very fun to write.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about change and its lack of encoded rules. Then, together with them, we should look closely at how such people's speech and writing diverges from the kind of English that they would like to acquire.