Re Writing Quotes

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.