Re Writing Quotes

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies can I do.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

I am really just writing about real life.

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

Every writer has to write his speech.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual