Re Writing Quotes

If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.