You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked. 'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
