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Writing Quotes

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

Life Writing My Life Trash Sense

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

Writing Director Producer Unheard

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Beautiful Time Brain Writing Better

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

Writing Want Try Write Head Up

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

Writing Think Gay Want Audience Out

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

Myself Writing Long Now Because Off

What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.

Francisco Goldman

Me Writing Career Important Young

In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.

John Gregory Dunne

Girl Wife Spring Writing Book Late

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Red Blue Yellow Amazing Writing

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

David Ogden Stiers

Work Hard Work People Writing Hard

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

Freedom Great Yourself Writing You

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

Anita Pallenberg

Writing Young Want Why Spice Write

We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.

Music Writing Acting Matter Never

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Writing Feel Because I Feel Like

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

Me Writing Reading Long Hardship

Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves what they want to achieve, and get a list of exercises together that improves the craft and gives them more access to the craft of writing good songs.

Good Together People Writing Help

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

Kathleen Turner

Women Writing Create Admire Need

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

Time Coffee I Am Writing Hotel Go

I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out of class. I would imagine them running down the hall and asking my teacher, 'Ms. Daniels, can we get Missy out of class? We're here to see Missy.'

Teacher School Me Writing Remember

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

Writing Finding Very Fascinating

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Daniel Pinkwater

College Writing Reading Write

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

Time Experience Writing Cat Room

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Writing Mystery Enjoy Trying Most

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Writing Emotions Point Just Stuff

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