Re Writing Quotes

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.