Solo Writing Quotes

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.

I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.

There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being able to let go of something, especially with 'Peaky.'

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.