Quotes About Writing

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.