Re Writing Quotes

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

can only write about what bites you.

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.

I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.