Re Writing Quotes

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating look inside the reality of what that whole madness is about.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

I don't care about writing really.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Learn to write by writing

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

I'm very comfortable writing.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.