Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.
Reba McEntire

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
David Hackworth

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Peter Gabriel

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor Adorno

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
Joan Collins

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
Elliott Smith

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.
Linda McCartney

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
Brian Molko

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.
Glenn Danzig

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
Wole Soyinka

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka