Re Writing Quotes

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

Write like no one's going to read it !

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

I write constantly about everything.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

Writing has to support itself.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.