Quotes About Writing

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.