Re Writing Quotes

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

I almost don't know how to write an email.

My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and I get really proud and happy.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.