Re Writing Quotes

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

One tends to write beyond what's needed

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I write music. I'm in a band.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.