Re Writing Quotes

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Why are some things easier to write than say?

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

I will write my way into another life.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

Write about winter in the summer.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.