Quotes About Writing

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Writing is an outlet, but it's not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.