Quotes About Writing

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

I write because I love doing it.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.

I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.