If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.
Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.
I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
When you are in WWE, you're really strapped down by their rules and writing.
When I get back from a mid-morning stroll, I’ll do some writing then I’ll typically spend the day testing new recipes.
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.