Re Writing Quotes

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.