Quotes About Writing

It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

I love writing novels, but I'm very fearful about writing something from absolute scratch. I kind of don't have the time to write something from scratch. I think when my knees completely give out, and I can't make films anymore, I would try to write novels from scratch.

I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights.

I'm an actress, and I write, and I produce stuff. I have a guitar, and I have my knitting stuff. I have a lot of things going on; I love to not ever put all my energy into one thing fully.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.

I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don't have a good knowledge of harmony and can't identify rhythm signatures very easily either.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.

I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

Can you repeat that pickup line for me?" I heard one of the vamps ask. "I want to write it down. Something about the usual?

Some folks pray on it. Me? I write about it.

I know if I weren't writing about the things I'd like to do I'd be out doing them. Including killing a whole bunch of folks

When we read the Bible, we learn. However, when we write out biblical commands in a way that is personal to us, we allow the Word to take root deep within our hearts.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

I pinch the sentence's butt with my other hand and tug it from my skin like a leech, smack it back on the page and clamp the book shut. Part of it's hanging out, and it waves jerkily at me with what appears to be blatant hostility. I stick the book back on the upside-down shelf over my head, pissed off sentence first, counting on the gluey base to hold it in. All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.

All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.

Life isn't a bloody comic strip, kid," Ryodan said coolly. "Yes it is," he said, "and we get to write our own script, so be epic or vacate the page. You're all taking this way too seriously.