Re Writing Quotes

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I really didn't think about song writing.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.