Quotes about writ
writing
We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. James Buchan
writing scripts looks
I don't look at scripts. I just write them. James Cameron
writing ideas air
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
writing bears littles
I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live James Agee
writing artist facts
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?
writing thinking careers
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. James A. Michener
writing men young
If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
writing successful somewhere-else
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.
writing army nurse
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
writing firsts
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
writing men eight
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.
writing eight talking
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
writing imagination people
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
writing skills typewriters
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.
writing swings emotion
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
writing world want
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.
writing crafts excellent
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
writing trying knows
When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know. James A. Baldwin
writing one-thing
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
writing political instruments
Writing is a political instrument.
writing order world
You write in order to change the world.
writing trying want
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.
writing goal want
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
writing editors literature
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
writing light cities
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, 'Look.' I looked and all I saw was water. And he said, 'Look again,' which I did, and I saw oil on the water and the city reflected in the puddle. It was a great revelation to me. I can't explain it. He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you've had that experience, you see differently.
writing greed literature
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
writing past thinking
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that. Jacqueline Emerson
writing night thinking
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time. Jacqueline Susann
writing way
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
writing opera philanthropy
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Jacqueline Novogratz
writing night talking
I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it. Jackie Mason
writing men history
History -- its what those bitter old men write. Jackie Kennedy
writing people example
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff. Jackson Browne