Re Writing Quotes

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.