Writing Assistance Quotes

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can.

I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

I'm the worst speller on the planet. I'm so glad for spellcheck on my phone.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.