Re Writing Quotes

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

I'm going to quit writing.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Too many people write books as a calling card.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.

I never imagined I'd write a book.

It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.