Writing Quotes

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.

Will you stay up late with me tonight? sit quietly while I write you into a piece of art that will be a marvel for the ages?

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he’s written that can’t be read aloud easily.

Unfortunately I’ve been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it’s difficult to make music, write songs.