The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
If you write it down, you can make it happen.
Sometimes you just want to write a party song.
To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.
I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
