Quotes About Writing

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.