Re Writing Quotes

I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.

Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.

I always try to write about believable people.

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without taking the field trip themselves.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

I took a lot of writing courses.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.

I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.