Quotes About Writing

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.

I was always a huge fan of Nora Ephron.

I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her novel 'In a Lonely Place' about eight or nine times.

The script of 'Hum Paanch' was extremely powerful, written by Imtiaz Patel. He has written the characters so well, people got hooked with each of them.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the writing.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.