Quotes About Writing

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

It takes a long time to publish a book.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.