Quotes About Writing

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production, but it doesn't matter how beautifully made it is if something's wrong with the story arc.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

I think that's the most exciting thing, writing my own journey, my story with an organization that truly believes in me the same way I believe in them.

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

Several authors and editors I respect counseled me not to write the book as quickly as I did; they urged me to wait two or three years and put some distance between me and the expedition in order to gain some crucial perspective. Their advice was sound, but in the end I ignored it - mostly because what happened on the mountain was gnawing my guts out. I thought that writing the book might purge Everest from my life. It hasn't, of course.

The author of the document would one day come to believe that it was sacred scripture and that his writing desk was a holy object.

I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson's frequent use of "it's" for "its" and "recieve" for "receive

From 8 to 10 o'clock, practice music.16 From 10 to 1, dance one day and draw another. From 1 to 2, draw on the day you dance, and write a letter the next day. From 3 to 4, read French. From 4 to 5, exercise yourself in music. From 5 till bed-time, read English, write, etc.