Re Writing Quotes

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

I like writing about friends.

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.