Re Writing Quotes

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written