Quotes About Writing

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

I love writing. It is the closest thing to me after being an actor.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.

I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

Everything I write in my show is a collaboration with a team.

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

We were so focused on the production aspect of it that it wasn't until later in our college experience that we realized we needed to focus on writing. And once we did, that sort of became our way into Hollywood.

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work.

I write my columns pretty carefully.