Re Writing Quotes

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.