Quotes about writ
writing ideas good-and-bad
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. Shaun Cassidy
writing years records
It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else. Sharon Van Etten
writing self intense
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. Sharon Van Etten
writing views culture
In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture. Shashi Tharoor
writing years scripts
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. Shane Black
writing broken starting-out
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10. Shane Black
writing math together
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information. Shane Carruth
writing helping-others thinking
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing. Shane Carruth
writing thinking interesting
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay. Shane Carruth
writing ideas symphony
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony. Sergei Prokofiev
writing screenplays havens
I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet. Serena Williams
writing mind want
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing. Serena Williams
writing ongoing process
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. Sean Durkin
writing please
You can't write something to please someone. Sean Durkin
writing matter no-matter-what
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal. Sean Durkin
writing impulse ifs
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time. Seamus Heaney
writing self giving
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. Seamus Heaney
writing self empowerment
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. Seamus Heaney
writing
Write whatever you like! Seamus Heaney
written
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. Seamus Heaney
writing joy rewards
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Seamus Heaney
writing self forgetful
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful Seamus Heaney
writing years female
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way! Michael Patrick King
writing thinking hollywood
I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood. Michael Pena
writing trying ordinary
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things. Michael Pollan
writing trying firsts
I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family. Michael Pollan
writing stakes
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. Michael Pollan
writing found findings
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about. Michael Pollan
writing atheism littles
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. Michael Pollan
writing irony
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. Michael Pollan
writing self tools
There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself. Michael Pollan
writing finding-the-one phrases
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. Michael Pollan
writing done pieces
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. Michael Pollan