Re Writing Quotes

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most.

For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Writing thats not working for a living.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're writing something for themselves.

I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.