Quotes About Writing

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish.

I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

I had the pleasure of working for Hart Hanson as the writers' assistant on the Fox show 'Bones.' He was always willing to take five minutes in the kitchen and answer questions I had about writing and the business. Looking back now, I realize he might have just been politely waiting for the coffee to brew.

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.