Re Writing Quotes

I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

Improvise. Write your own damn story.

When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

...a good poem contains both meaning and music

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.