Quotes About Writing

It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

No British TV company could ever make a series like 'The West Wing' about British politics. It would beggar credibility. No one could write it with a straight face, or perform it without giggling.

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I'm a fair teacher.

When my friends asked me to blog, I thought why not write a book? People may be interested in knowing what it would take to be Rajini's daughter.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.

Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?'

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed because I don't have a video. I usually - with the exception of maybe a handful of videos - wake up, write the video, shoot the video, edit the video, release the video all in the same day.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.