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.
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found...
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.
