“Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.” WritingCan DoHoursHalf Author:Robert Hass
“What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.” WritingCan DoBoringLibertarianBest ThingsConstructsBoring Life Author:Dorothy Allison
“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.” ThinkingWritingFirstsEnoughHelpingCan DoRealizingPleasureCareersToo MuchCuttingMaterialsRelax Author:Ramsey Campbell
“When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.” KnowsWayWritingI CanWholeCharacterStoriesHappensCertainCan DoDecisionNumbersCuttingPossibilityPagesScriptsBunchFasterMaking DecisionsCutting Off Author:Steven Zaillian
“When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.” WritingI CanShowsWaitingCan DoAirWeekTelevisionInspiredLuxuryTelevision ShowsBe Inspired Author:Woody Allen
“What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.” IfsWorldShouldWritingFirstsCan DoAttentionWorryFocusSucceedDemonMaintaining Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.” WritingDreamFilmSportsCan DoEmotionalProjectsYou Can Do ItBeing Me Author:Jeff Cardoni
“People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingHardEasyDifficultCan DoLinesSimpleKnow HowDrowning Author:Charles Bukowski
“Because I also write, I really admire Latinas who are creating content. That's the next step. We can talk about seeing more Latinas on TV all day long, but it's about what we can do to make that happen. Women like Eva Longoria, Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Lopez, and Salma Hayek are producing a lot of great shows that feature Latinas. Those are the women who inspire me because they're not just acting; they're creating for the future.” WritingLongShowsHappensNextCan DoActingStepsSeeingInspireTvsCreatingAdmireFeaturesNext StepsJenniferLatinaHayek Author:Chrissie Fit
“Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.” PeopleThinkingWritingSeemsCan DoImagineProfession Author:Anna Quindlen
“I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingHardEnoughCan DoToo MuchAdmireFreakEnough TimeControl Freak Author:Sarah Dessen
“I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.” ThinkingWritingIdeasStoriesCan DoTypeDependsHarderIntellectAppealsTiesYou Can Do It Author:Stephen King
“When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.” PeopleIfsWritingPersonsIdeasSongEasyCan DoFive Author:Jason Mraz
“I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.” PeopleWayWantWritingTryingWellsI CanEnergyCan DoWaste Author:PJ Harvey
“The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.” PeopleWritingLongArtTermCan DoOrdinaryExtraordinaryInsignificantOrdinary PeopleLiterary Terms Author:Robert Dessaix
“The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.” WritingStoriesCan DoReaderRewardsYou Can Do It Author:Nick Earls
“That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.” IfsWritingHardJobsCan DoInterestingPayAttentionHard WorkLateIgnorantPay AttentionGood JobInteresting Things Author:Lydia Davis
“Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.” WritingWellsArtIdeasCan DoHellBlindMadSillyCraftsExcitementWithin YouYou Can Do ItSuperbBlind Trust Author:Elizabeth George
“I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.” WayWritingCan DoCuriosity Author:Robert Morgan