Re Writing Quotes

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

Write what you’re scared about.

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

I wish I had more time to write.

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.