Re Writing Quotes

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.