Quotes About Writing

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren't enough, I knewI was in love.

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Creating art and writing novels and poems are simply different roads I have chosen in my search for truth.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.