Re Writing Quotes

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record.

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

I loved the process of writing.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

The way you write affects what you say.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.