Re Writing Quotes

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

I'll write you a check. I'll write you a check. How do you spell Sheamus?

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

Write what you care about.

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.

I'm not sure that I have a favorite either on-screen or in the books! Whenever I'm writing, I'm always really excited to dive back into each character.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

I write poems to figure things out

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.