Quotes About Writing

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.

Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.

There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's the truth of the work that I've done in theatre and it's definitely the case for the work that I've been lucky enough to do on screen.

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's a pretty costly enterprise.

A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things.

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?

I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.