Re Writing Quotes

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress coolly or disastrously. It’s whatever.

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.

I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious!

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics