Writing Quotes - Page 650

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have to be sort of exploitive about seizing moments to write. Luckily, I still write most of my first drafts by hand, so I often work in bed when I can't sleep.

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.