Quotes About Writing

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on top of that when I'm writing.

I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things.

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

I enjoy writing about what I and my fiance, Debina Bonnerjee, are up to in my blog.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

I know how to write fiction well.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.