Quotes About Writing

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.

I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.