Quotes About Writing

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.