Quotes About Writing

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.

By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.

My first love is literature.

I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

I've written, like, 450 comics, and 'Secret Six' was the first one I've had ship late, ever. So it took a lot to make that happen. So we had a little bit of a stop-and-start, and then we had Convergence, and then Issue No. 2 of 'Secret Six'.

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.