Quotes About Writing

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

It's always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.