Quotes about writ
writing two want
I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop. Norman Mailer
writing littles rooms
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
writing mean thinking
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. Norman MacCaig
writing misunderstood
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
writing people happened
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
writing
I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'. Norman Lear
writing comedy someday
I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.
writing los-angeles
I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.
writing umpires justice
Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them. Orrin Hatch
writing ideas pins
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin. Orson Welles
writing actors directors
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
writing film-critics impact
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.
writing school mean
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing. Ornette Coleman
writing player hard-times
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
writing expression years
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
writing sacrifice years
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. Oriana Fallaci
writing remembrance needs
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse. Orhan Pamuk
writing turkeys want
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.
writing consolation surprising
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
writing years trying
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
writing house freedom-of-speech
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
writing years fiction
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.
writing years mind
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.
writing beast
Writing is the beast unto itself. Omar Epps
writing miracle roles
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle! Olympia Dukakis
writing tasks wheat
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list. Olivia Goldsmith
writing science thinking
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? Oliver Wendell Holmes
writing secret ass
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair. Oliver Stone
writing ass chairs
writing = ass + chair
writing quality goes-on
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life. Oliver Sacks
writing men creative
I like men who paint or write or do something creative. Olga Kurylenko
writing ideas down-and
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies. Obie Trice
writing beats studios
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.