Re Writing Quotes

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary studies, but I wouldn't blame it on any one methodology.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Novel writing is solitary work.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.