Re Writing Quotes

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.

Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

His writings have made me his friend.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

Im always terrified when Im writing.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

I've been writing forever, 20 years.