Re Writing Quotes

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

I write because I can’t sleep.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I write with teenagers in mind.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

I love writing for the screen.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.