Quotes about writ
writing character sandwiches
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for. Jill Scott
writing firsts so-hurt
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
writing contemporary-fiction voice
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. Jessica Hagedorn
writing thinking dialogue
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
writing character thinking
It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective. Jessica Chastain
writing thinking self
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. Jerry Harrison
writing space columns
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space. Jeremy Clarkson
writing thinking play
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think. Eugene Ionesco
writing mediocrity dangerous
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
writing people answers
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
writing practice people
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study. Esperanza Spalding
writing prose-and-poetry needs
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. Ernst Haas
writing helping born
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway
writing doe world
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
writing way best-way
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
writing challenges done
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
writing two long
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
writing years trying
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
writing conversation good-conversation
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
writing pay typos
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
writing trying world
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
writing want
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
writing men done
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
writing perspective giving
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
writing past simple
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
writing mean men
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
writing stories
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
writing law addresses
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
writing thinking complicated
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
writing thinking should
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
writing training dinner
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
writing trying underwater
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
writing sorrow progress
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.