Re Writing Quotes

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

I don't write, I build a rhyme.

To memorize something,it's best to write it down.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

You write about what you know.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

I do not write for an audience

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

I write emotional music.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.