Re Writing Quotes

When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter--someone new? Someone better--maybe YOU!

I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the best public speaker, so it's my writing that's most important.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.

Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Writing is a form of mischief.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.