Quotes about writ
writing opposites names
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way Jacques Barzun
writing bad-writing scholarship
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
writing race political
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
writing simple thinking
I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to write to that. I think we've done some cool, simple spots. I was very comfortable in Texas, and getting ready to push out into national stuff, try to get to that national-type creative, and then I got sidetracked with this stuff. Jackie Earle Haley
writing redneck thinking
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing. Jackie DeShannon
writing missing together
I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can. Jackee Harry
writing materials my-own
I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.
writing thinking vanity
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. Jackie Collins
writing numbers different
There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.
writing want storyteller
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
writing people secret
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
writing color people
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.
writing thinking style
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
writing want scripts
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!' Jackie Chan
writing thinking ideas
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. Jack Whitehall
writing thinking people
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so. Jack White
writing long sopranos
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. James Gandolfini
writing sometimes good-writing
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
writing people negative
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. James Frey
writing style pieces
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.
writing thinking important
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.
writing voice trying
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.
writing interest autobiography
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
writing instinct feels
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
writing marketing touring
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
writing conflict dramatic
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
writing worry trust-myself
I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.
writing thinking perfect
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
writing mean dark
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter. J. R. R. Tolkien
writing derivatives fantasy
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
writing dark long-ago
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
writing names giving
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
writing thinking people
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. J. Anthony Lukas