Quotes About Writing

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

I'm thankful to have time to write.

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Writing's a long, slow process. It affords me so little pleasure I often wonder why I make the effort.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.