Writing Quotes - Page 422

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

I need to write to be happy.

Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything.

So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could have won.But the others, who were way at the left, people like Anthony Lewis of the New York Times, way out in left stream, his view in 1975 was the Vietnam war began with blundering efforts to do good. But by 1969, it was clear that it was a disaster, that was too costly to us.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.