Quotes about writ
writing responsibility artist
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. August Wilson
writing editing eloquent
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
writing men who-i-am
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.
writing breathing painful
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing ... Audre Lorde
writing circles racism
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
writing needs
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there
writing play kind
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery. Athol Fugard
writing night thinking
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
writing thinking years
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
writing love-and-death subjects
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? Arthur Schnitzler
writing echoes oneself
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. Arnold Bennett
writing stopping i-can
I can't envisage stopping writing. Antony Beevor
writing drawing people
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. Antony Sher
writing pigs people
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. Antonin Artaud
writing hell built
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
writing self fiction
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. Diablo Cody
writing years satisfaction
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.
writing skills
I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.
writing people littles
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.
writing work-out ifs
If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.
writing thinking ideas
The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!
writing men wind
I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.
writing television scripts
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'
writing play want
It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really. Derek Hough
writing college benefits
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems. Derek Bok
writing college thinking
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
writing effort film
If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are. Denzel Washington
writing people challenges
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny. Denis Norden
writing world language
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language. Denise Levertov
writing order stopping
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
writing actors sound
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. Denis Leary
writing long acting
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
writing actors television
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.