I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes. - David Steinberg
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. - Laurell K. Hamilton
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. - Isadora Duncan
I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working. - Lesley Gore
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. - David Friedman
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. - Paddy Chayefsky
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. - Joni Mitchell
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. - Garth Brooks
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. - Luigi Pirandello
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. - Tom T. Hall
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. - Mordecai Richler
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. - Jerry Harrison
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer. - Gerald Clarke
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that! - Dan Fogelberg
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. - Eudora Welty
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop. - Stephen Fry
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. - Philip Levine
Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. - Emilio Estevez
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. - Arthur Hailey
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. - Bernard Cornwell
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. - Edna Ferber
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. - Laurence Sterne
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. - Russell Banks