Quotes About Writing

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

Writer's block is a fiction.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

I've never had writer's block.

I blog because I have something to say.

No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

I want to start a blog.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

I don't tend to write articles and blogs because, I think, if you went into the theatre knowing that this is the writer's view on x, y, and z, it's just game over for the play.

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

I wrote 'Pumpkins' with Bobby Moynihan and Streeter Seidell.

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone,' and my only goal was to finish a book because I had never managed to do it.