Re Writing Quotes

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee -I find I can get a lot done that way.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative. But don't look too much into it.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.