Quotes About Writing

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.

Once I started writing at 'The Onion' I was like, oh this is it, this is my dream job, I've achieved my dream job.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new concept, people couldn't pick up on it, but I think it was down to the dynamic characters and how well done it was.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.