Quotes about writ
writing play political
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.' Tony Kushner
writing artist creepy
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
writing bars balls
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
writing play people
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
writing thinking your-side
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
writing people political
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
writing back-to-work torture
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
writing want
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. Tony Earley
writing feelings knows
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling. Tommy Lee
writing average records
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
writing listening playing-music
It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.
writing home house
When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
writing feels knows
You know what, I just write what I feel.
writing intention knows
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
writing catholic corinthians
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back? Tommy Lasorda
writing feelings matter
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write. Tom Wolfe
writing fiction problem
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
writing trying way
You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it. Tom Waits
writing drawing air
I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.
writing bees instruments
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
writing self order
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
writing brave needs
When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
writing suffering quality
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
writing tvs different
TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer. Tom Skerritt
writing luck may
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook) Steven Heighton
writing feels core
I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core. Steven Erikson
writing people records
I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down. Steve McQueen
writing joy
Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me. Steve Martin
writing thinking past
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.
writing thinking editing
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
writing play long
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
writing thinking ideas
To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
writing scripts firsts
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.