Quotes About Writing

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just what happens. It makes me feel better, but having some distance helps.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I chose to write the kind of romance I love best - one with a sheikh hero.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

It's pretty simple, really: I love the X-Men. They were my favorite heroes when I was a kid. My dad and I collected X-Men comics together, and I know it would have made him proud to see me writing 'Uncanny X-Men.'

One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.