Quotes About Writing

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much or more time than producing multiple movies.

It's so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of how you came to it can only ever be applied retroactively. You're never conscious of why you're producing it.

I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

Producing 1,200 words every day, when you're already working a full-time job is a lot.

I started out writing and producing as a way for me to get the confidence to put out my own record and to learn and to really be a student of the industry.

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I think my dream career would be to own my own production company and be able to write movies and star in them every once in awhile. Kind of like a Judd Apatow type of guy. That would be really fun.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.