Re Writing Quotes

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I am the queen of hashtags! I love hashtags. I think in hashtags. I wish I could write everything in hashtag.

The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

I write because I love doing it.

I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

I mean, I don't care what Drive-Bys write about local issues and all that. But I'm talking about this kind of stuff, national issues of great importance. I do not believe.

If I had the ability to influence people all over the world just by speaking or writing, one of my objectives would be find out how America became special and then tell everybody.

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.