Quotes about writing
writing stories research
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story. Alan Garner
writing trying trends
Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. Alan Dean Foster
writing
I've been writing full-time since 1978.
writing world funny-travel
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
writing symphony notes
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
writing perfect important
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
writing way
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
writing merit source
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. Al Yankovic
writing knows
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
writing simplicity belief
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence. Alain de Botton
writing trying attention
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
writing use naivety
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
writing fiction uncomfortable
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
writing what-matters records
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
writing sane
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
writing self careers
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
writing men sexuality
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. Al Goldstein
writing tv-shows worry
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. Al Franken
writing satisfaction
I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.
writing choices sometimes
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.
writing come-up cases
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it. Aimee Mann
writing giving scripts
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it. Ajay Devgan
writing ideas enlightenment
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. Charles Jencks
writing successful sky
It starts with the writing - which is really, really good. And the production values are phenomenal. HBO and Sky have spent money on it, and you get what you pay for. This has money put into it properly - not lavish amounts - but as each season is successful, they maintain the money that's being spent to maintain the quality. Charles Dance
writing character pigs
But the quality of writing in the series [game of Thrones] is paramount. That's probably why all of us are involved in this and all of us are quite so loyal to it, because we don't have to expend a lot of energy trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. The quality of the writing is really good, and that's what makes playing a character so enjoyable, whether he's heroic or villainous.
writing next-day conclusion
Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.
writing aids alliteration
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. Charles Churchill
writing imagination fiction
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. Charles Colson
writing men thinking
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley]. Charles Darwin
writing play numbers
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. David Bowie
writing names bigs
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. Dave Mustaine
writing people looks
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
writing comfort expenses
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." Dave Ramsey