Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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.
Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.
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.
