Quotes About Writing

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.