Re Writing Quotes

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

I like how I write better than how I speak.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.

I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

Great books conserve time.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.