Quotes About Writing

You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare

Io non intingo la penna in un calamaio, ma nella vita. Scrivere, non è vivere. È forse sopravvivere a se stessi.

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)

The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.

When you put a thing on paper, sometimes you discover you already know the answer. Or maybe that there is no answer, which is the same thing.

It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd start another one you'd think this time I'm going to get it right....

To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say "I'm a writer" out loud.

Y concéntrate en escribir una frase. Una línea. Porque si aprendes a contarme «de qué va» mejor, más rápido y de forma más creativa, mantendrás mi interés. Y, de paso, al hacer eso antes de ponerte a escribir el guión, también harás que sea mejor la historia.

Me gusta uno de Viki King, que lleva el aventurado título de How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

The good news is that no matter what you are writing…there is a market for it…but you have to understand the consumers in that given market.

As we write down our goals, we erase our excuses.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Träna din kropp, gör yoga. Jogga. Gå. Att skriva är kroppsarbete, du behöver tillgång till hela din kropp. Utan kroppen är huvudet inget att ha.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.