Re Writing Quotes

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

Money to a writer is time to write.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.