Re Writing Quotes

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

I love writing songs.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.

Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.