Quotes About Writing

I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.

These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

Good dialogue is very important.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

I love writing Scottish dialogue.

I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I write a diary every day.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.