Quotes about writ
writing skills credit
I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it. Steve Martin
writing fire play
I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
writing years people
I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a vibrancy to it 50 years from now.
writing editors mind
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
writing emotional skills
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.
writing accomplishment acting
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.
writing voice majority
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to. Steve Berry
writing stories structure
I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. Steve Buscemi
writing masters plans
I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
writing training actors
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
writing company techie
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. Steve Ballmer
writing office world
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. Steve Carell
writing aspect performing
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
writing want privacy
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. Stephen Hawking
writing ideas creative
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Stephen King
writing thinking people
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
writing shining fiction
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
writing voice stories
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
writing dressing-up clothes
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
writing cutting thinking
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.
writing thinking ideas
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.
writing thinking years
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
writing members polite
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
writing two creating
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.
writing commandments
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
writing secret shadow
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
writing horror-stories guy
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.
writing thinking ideas
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
writing thinking way
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
writing scare losing
What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.
writing mind left-alone
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
writing thinking pneumonia
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
writing ideas blenders
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. Stephan Pastis