Re Writing Quotes

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.

One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'

There is a lot of years in my 20s that acting was really on the back burner not even saying I was traveling and writing, taking pictures and just kind of living and figuring out what I wanted to do.

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."