Quotes about writ
writing stories littles
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little. Ingmar Bergman
writing novel
I write novels and other things. Jack L. Chalker
writing views people
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas. Jack Kirby
writing goal mind
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step. Jack Canfield
writing thinking ideas
Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'
writing heard euphemism
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. J. D. Salinger
writing years long
Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot. J. J. Abrams
writing play drawing
I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.
writing long guy
I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
writing world want
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. J. G. Ballard
writing thinking contentment
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
writing thinking frustrated
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
writing successful soul
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
writing pleasure publishing
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
writing want pleasure
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
writing men thinking
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
writing important tomorrow
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Ivy Lee
written
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story. Avi
writing rock-and-roll rocks
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics. Lou Reed
writing quiet-moments waiting
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ... Lois Wyse
writing letters making-time
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
writing cells vanity
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Logan Pearsall Smith
writing gay wings
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
writing self schedules
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. Lois Lowry
writing ignorance evil
...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? Lloyd Alexander
writing reality novel
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. Manuel Puig
writing order imagination
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
writing fantasy memoir
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
writing film cases
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
writing thinking reader
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
writing simple ukulele
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
writing creativity color
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. Madeleine L'Engle
writing thinking want
If you want to write . . . keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.