Re Writing Quotes

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.