Re Writing Quotes

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

It took me sixteen years to write.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm and connected fashion.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.

I want to be able to write on my walls. I think that's the big thing.

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician.

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.