Quotes about writ
writing reality drug
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway. Hunter S. Thompson
writing thinking has-beens
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
writing fate dark
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
writing typewriters doors
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
writing july america
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih
writing people i-realized
I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about. Hubert Selby, Jr.
writing inspired process
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
writing years people
One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
writing class long
I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life. Howard Shore
writing able stories
I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.
writing people kind
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Howard Rheingold
writing style thieves
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has! Honore de Balzac
writing talent particular
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
writing tables my-thoughts
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
writing color political
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
writing routine want
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about. Harvey Pekar
writing people literature
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
writing wife argument
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
writing people common
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
writing people wish
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes
writing stuff splendor
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
writing filled-in space
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. Harold Ross
writing character doors
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do. Harold Pinter
writing want usual
I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.
writing thinking giving
I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
writing wish different
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.
writing thinking mind
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
writing literature life-worth-living
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
writing opportunity people
As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control. Harold Ramis
writing ideas performing
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.
writing play good-movie
Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.
writing names challenges
When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.