“I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.” WritingChildrenLongWantedWaitingSupportLong TimeMost Wanted Author:Margaret Mahy
“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.” WritingFirstsLongArtDoneEnoughSongPaintingLong TimePursueEnough TimeHad Enough Author:Jason Newsted
“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLongStoriesRealizingWrittenPagesLong TimeThirdsFourthDepressingFifthFooled Author:David Sedaris
“If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesLongIdeasMatterWaitingSolitudeLong TimeGuiltyGood IdeasInsignificantIdleness Author:Brenda Ueland
“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.” GivingWritingLongPlayActorsChancePiecesLong TimeGive MeComicDramaticFacets Author:Linda Lavin
“I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.” WritingLongVoiceClassFiguresLong TimeFormal Author:Sara Zarr
“One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.” PeopleWritingLongMatterCharacterFictionLong Time Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
“I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.” WantWritingLongTogetherFilmUsedNightCoupleLong TimeScriptsTake MeSpecsKurosawa Author:Duncan Jones
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.” FeelsWritingTryingLongCharacterAbleFictionTalkingCrazyLong TimeOkayParisInterviewsReviewsFiction WritersReally Long Author:Sloane Crosley
“I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.” WritingLittlesLongHas BeensStrongGrowsSleepPoorLong TimeAffectionEnjoymentExquisiteLament Book:Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Source: Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman