Quotes about writ
writing knowing guy
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be. Paul Thomas Anderson
writing who-i-am people
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
writing thinking childhood
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. Paul Theroux
writing sick long
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
writing persons activity
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
writing hong-kong stories
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
writing former-friends former
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
writing order unhappy
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
writing who-i-am people
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.
writing kind surprise
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.
writing nerves
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
writing capable
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
writing needs stories
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. Paul Kagame
writing cutting hair
If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that. Paul Konerko
writing taught jazz
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. Paul Desmond
writing trying asking
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding. Paul Di Filippo
writing men poetry
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote. Paul Dirac
writing thinking personal-things
I think writing is a much more personal thing. Patrick Stump
writing singing
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
writing self scary-stories
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies) Patrick Carman
writing ears melody
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. Patrick Carney
writing reality tv-shows
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
writing digging harder
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging. Patrick Dennis
writing imagination people
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. John Sandford
writing
My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler. John Searles
writing
We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole. John Scalzi
writing people boredom
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
writing brain different
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
writing pigs guy
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. John Sayles
writing people littles
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.
writing average two
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
writing next-day roger
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
writing thinking stories
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.