If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
Mike Myers

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Truman Capote

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

That's not writing, that's typing.
Truman Capote

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

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.
Quentin Tarantino

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Quentin Tarantino

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Gore Vidal