Re Writing Quotes

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

To read and write is a paradise.

In literature, you know only what you imagine

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'