Re Writing Quotes

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Writing time has to be created.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

I don't like writing. I like having written.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

Writing is always harder than talking.

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.