Re Writing Quotes

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

I write about families. That is who we are.

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

And I could write it better than you ever felt it.

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

A hand cannot write on itself.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.