Re Writing Quotes

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.

Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life.

I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check and use the pen, and I would keep the pen.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

I think writing should be about change.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

When revelation comes write it down.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.