Tom Green Quotes

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.