Re Writing Quotes

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not all readers will think I have been, of course.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

I love writing about people on the road.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else?

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.

The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.