Re Writing Quotes

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

Writing is a bit like being a god

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.

I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically, it's very accessible - or, at least, I hope so.

If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.