Re Writing Quotes

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.

Writing is the worst part of being a writer.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.