Re Writing Quotes

[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing their own songs.

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have, I just write a story about it. Lyric-wise, it's cool to have someone else's input too.

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

I buy way too many books.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

I write in Arabic and prefer writing my stories by hand. I need a cup of tea or coffee when I write. When I was in Syria, I was addicted to tea, but now I'm addicted to Starbucks.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

At least I can write.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul