Re Writing Quotes

I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that you sit there and you're angry, which doesn't help.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working.

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of people wanna hear or have to hear.

I am not behold to any special interest, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write those checks. Nobody owns Trump.

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.

Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.

I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make mistakes and you'll write badly and I'm OK with that. But I'm not OK when it is fake.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

When it comes to details, more is not necessarily better.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart...

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire his ability to be simple without being simplistic.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.