Quotes about writ
writing giving way
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail. Susan Sontag
writing tasks slavery
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
writing doors pieces
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
writing literature audience
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
writing talking touching
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
writing alive firsts
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
writing agony passionate
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.
writing ideas
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
writing simple dare
Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?" Scott Westerfeld
writing decision doe
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Scott Adams
writing thinking easy
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.
writing america people
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
writing things-in-life people
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.
writing data doubt
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.
writing thinking ideas
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form. Julian Barnes
writing gaps advertising
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. Joss Stone
writing good-friend thinking
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too. Jostein Gaarder
writing letters six
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes Joseph Joubert
writing glasses vision
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
writing fancy rooms
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
writing years together
But the script's got to be at a level that makes it worth going back for, because it's a lot of work to make a movie like this and it's a multi-year project. So we've got our writer Jesse Wigutow on it right now writing, and fingers crossed if it all comes together, as we hope it will, there could be another Tron in the next few years, and it's going to be awesome. Joseph Kosinski
writing thinking discovery
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery Joseph Epstein
writing humans human-beings
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. Joss Whedon
writing cutting ideas
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.
writing empowerment ends
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
writing people guy
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
writing creating important
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
writing thinking ideas
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.
writing stories way
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.
writing play variation
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
writing earth want
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.
writing firefly people
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.
writing giving
I write to give myself strength.