Re Writing Quotes

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

I write in American slang.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

I write really well on the road.

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

My mother raised me to be a writer.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

A writer is someone who writes!

No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.