Re Writing Quotes

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

I don't write romance novels.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.