Re Writing Quotes

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

There are no rules to writing a song.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

It's really fun to write cuss words. Just in general.

All of my writing is God-given.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Write. Don't think. Relax.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.