Quotes about writ
writing giving energy
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker
writing together different
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
writing oddities ideas
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
writing vocabulary example
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
writing law errors
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Nick Harkaway
writing thinking together
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers. Nick Kroll
writing perspective important
I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture. Nick Cave
writing heart air
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
writing ideas people
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.
writing office long
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
writing ideas scripts
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
writing equations ifs
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
writing levels beneficial
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
writing scene
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
writing men mind
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.
writing
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
writing office
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
writing
Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.
writing years want
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out. Nick Bantock
writing long letters
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
writing stories
Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you. Nick Carter
writing effort paradox
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday
writing names who-i-am
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about. Nana Visitor
writing brain down-and
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. Mose Allison
writing two three
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. Sherman Alexie
writing hands washing
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
writing dark wicked
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it. Seth Grahame-Smith
writing media next-week
From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in. Seth MacFarlane
writing six-months littles
We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it. Seth Rogen
writing want roles
I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
writing computer
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. Sebastian Bach
writing training mountain
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. Sebastian Junger
writing style television
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. Scott Speedman