Re Writing Quotes

I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

When you write a song, a song has longevity

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

A writer writes what other people only think.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.

Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.