Re Writing Quotes

I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.

It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

I would not vote for the Democratic candidate. I could not vote for Donald Trump. I would therefore have to write in someone. I could get behind any other Republican candidate, any of them.

I tend to write in the mornings.

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.

I'm addicted to writing.

My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.

I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate them.

I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.