Writing Quotes

I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.

Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.

I tried to write you something uplifting but I could only see grey.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

My mental space is when I get to a place of creativity, and I can just be myself while I am writing and connecting with the material.

I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, ‘I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.’