Writing Quotes - Page 1002

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

How can you contrive to write so even?

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.

With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which is like what happens to me every night when I'm playing. There is that crazy moment: the first mark you make on the page. But sound can inspire sound, in a way that words can't inspire words - at least for me. The nature of sound itself is still a huge mystery to me. I'm very happy about that.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

I write music. I'm in a band.

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.