Writing Quotes - Page 914

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Anyone who knows me knows I can be a control freak with things I love doing. I love doing fashion and I love writing, so everything I've done I'm really involved with, so it's not really work to me because I'm enjoying it.

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

At night I can write for hours.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy."

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Generally a good parameter for me is to try something I haven't done before either in the writing or recording process, to break old patterns and habits. Even if I eventually return to something similar, I'll have gotten there from a different starting point and engaged in a different process.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.

Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical - but that makes no sense to anyone. Now I say I just write my own songs. I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.