Quotes About Writing

I am a stickler for damn good writing.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

I am baffled by good writing.

When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I think you've got to be careful with gore. Different genres need different things.

I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.

I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

One of the most fun characters I played on a television series, which didn't last long... was a show called 'American Gothic' that Shaun Cassidy created. I would have loved to have done that show forever. That character was so funny yet demonic. It was really good writing and a really good idea. I loved all the people on the show.

I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.