Re Writing Quotes

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing.

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

I just write when fear overtakes me.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.