Quotes About Writing

I'm turning into one of those people who writes to the actors on 'Coronation Street' - a really obsessive fan.

I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know how autobiographical you're being.

The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

I don't think of myself as a guy who writes for kids, I really don't. I try really hard to write a good, solid sitcom.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.