Re Writing Quotes

You write in order to change the world.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

I will write another book if I feel like it.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know

I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I write to find out about how the world sings.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.