Quotes About Writing

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary.

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

I have been a print journalist.

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.