Quotes about writ
writing directors screenplays
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that. Deepa Mehta
writing thinking somewhere-else
Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you really feel. Don't try to change it. Honor it: "This is how I feel." Express it, and then it's not suppressed and stored somewhere in your liver or somewhere else.
writing holy stills
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually. Deborah Eisenberg
writing horror triviality
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
writing fiction done
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
writing reality earthquakes
You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.
writing years people
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire. Deborah Harkness
writing feels
I write about the things I feel strongly about. Dido Armstrong
writing people able
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. Dick Cavett
writing thinking easy
I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.
writing mean thinking
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does. Diana Krall
writing people different
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different. Diana Gabaldon
writing seems
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. Dennis Lehane
writing dark two
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.
writing bars use
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
writing simple secret
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.
writing people want
It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
writing white house
The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done. Dennis Miller
writing political stories
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. Denise Mina
writing world might
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. Edward Everett Hale
writing artist expression
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. Edgar Degas
writing soul different
We would not - from here - counsel anyone to be guided by influences from without. ... If these come as in inspirational writings from within, and not as guidance from others - that is different ... the inspirational may develop the soul of the individual, while the automatic may rarely reach beyond the force that is guiding or directing. Edgar Cayce
writing shapes needs
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape. Ed Westwick
writing thinking trying
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them. Ed Sheeran
writing gigs tunes
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
writing always-trying different
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein. Earl King
writing satire
I like to write a lot of satire.
writing gymnastics
Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
writing trying pages
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen. Elizabeth Kostova
writing men years
If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. Elizabeth Meriwether
writing feelings mischievous
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
writing skeletons elements
You cant improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of. Eliza Coupe
writing one-day three
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three. Elizabeth Barrett Browning