Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.
Every life is a unique story written by an unique person who is living it. So write it fearlessly, write it better.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful.
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
