Quotes about writ
writing doe results
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. Quintilian
writing impossible should
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
writing language introducing
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
writing wells
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
writing impossible should
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
writing character talking
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales. R. A. Salvatore
writing adventure people
The most common criticism that I've seen is that I write "popcorn fantasy": lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
writing fantasy-novels fantasy
No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
writing quitting ifs
If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.
writing dna stuff
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA. Quincy Jones
writing realist ifs
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist. Quentin Crisp
writing hands brain
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts. Quentin Tarantino
writing men thinking
I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.
writing voice important
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.
writing editing lasts
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.
writing kill-bill calling
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right. And consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and got to "Kill Bill" volume 1 and 2.
writing thinking way
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.
writing thinking perspective
I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
writing class ideas
And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.
writing novel screenplays
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
writing trying
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
writing people break
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
writing actors
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
writing poetry computer
You can't write poetry on the computer.
writing rocks play
Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.
writing thinking way
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
writing want nails
I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or when I'm writing it or when I'm making it, because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.
writing pages made
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.
writing trying genre
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
writing stuff filmmaker
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
writing feet people
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.
writing people screenplays
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
writing heart language
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi