Re Writing Quotes

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

If you wish to write, write.

I think writing is one of the toughest things.

I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I write, but I also act.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big pressure if the writing is not hilarious.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.