Re Writing Quotes

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.

It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

I want to write about grown-up things.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about what's most prevalent in my mind.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.