Re Writing Quotes

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.