Quotes about writ
writing cutting boys
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it. Chang-Rae Lee
writing discovery agony
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. Chaim Potok
writing fiction shapes
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
writing half six
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
writing mean thinking
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
writing school home
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct. Charlie Hunnam
writing intuition connections
As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational. Charlie Kaufman
writing actors directors
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.
writing thinking years
When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.
writing decision force
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
writing thinking space
I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.
writing thinking talent
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
writing opposites trying
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
writing character preparation
There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.
writing character trying
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
writing thinking people
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
writing thinking keys
From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that's the key to writing something that's not pandering.
writing journey adaptation
Writing is a journey into the unknown.
writing thinking people
I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.
writing character way
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
writing way knows
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
writing confusion perspective
The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.
writing sublime critics
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Charles Saatchi
writing want stones
The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. Charles Simic
writing touching despair
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
writing thinking expression
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Charles Mingus
writing men style
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
writing dark night
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. Charles M. Schulz
writing term-paper breakfast
You can't write a term paper before breakfast.
writing names irs
Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.
writing ears sissy
I don't write music for sissy ears. Charles Ives
writing fire playing-with-fire
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire. Billy Wilder
writing cameras twenties
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.