Paul McCartney Quotes

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.