Re Writing Quotes
Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.
I would have to say the best was when my mom formed a company for me. I write out all of the checks for my performance business. I get to see the money I make and how much it takes to do what I do.
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful".
I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.
I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers don't have to write novels anymore.
Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.
When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.
It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.
Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks.
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.
I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.
Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.
The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life.
I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.
