Alan Zweibel Quotes

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I've always liked new writing.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

word thrower … phrase maker

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

I like writing.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

I prefer writing originals.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

You become a great writer by writing.

Call me the author.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Writing is a great love of mine.

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

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'