Re Writing Quotes

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.