Re Writing Quotes

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.

I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.

You've got to write for your audience.

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.