Quotes About Writing

My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.

I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

I am a writer of fragments.

I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.

I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material in this universe.

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

You don't have to be a criminal to write about fraud!

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.