Quotes about writ
writing years lucky
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. Patrick Marber
writing simple
Writing has never been that simple for me. Pat Conroy
writing hands long
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
writing thinking form
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
writing light interesting
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
writing way my-own-life
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
writing agony uniforms
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
writing voice relief
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
writing thinking people
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it. Pamela Hansford Johnson
writing objectivity perfect
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. Pamela Stephenson
writing thinking tone
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. Julia Leigh
writing space roles
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
writing heart dukes
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward. Julia Quinn
writing happy-endings knows
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.
writing careers expectations
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
writing world ink
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.
writing suffering
Because to write, one must truly suffer. Juan Rulfo
writing long answers
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so. Juan Ramon Jimenez
writing guitar use
Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English. Juanes
writing actors tailors
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. Judd Apatow
writing emotional thinking
I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.
writing scripts
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.
writing risk performing
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.
writing laughing people
I wrote on the Grammys, and a few times for Garry Shandling when he was hosting. I couldn't have enjoyed those gigs more, because I would get to collaborate and try to make people I looked up to laugh, but for the most part, when you're as talented as they are, what they really want is someone who can type fast and whose presence makes them feel in the mood to write and spew and be creative, and I was a good person to have in the room.
writing thinking trying
I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a rule where the bar, to get your name added to the writing credits, if you've done a revision, is very high if you're also the producer or director.
writing thinking bigs
I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.
writing soul humans
Writers are the engineers of human souls. Joseph Stalin
writing names crafts
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. Joseph Brodsky
writing men self
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
writing people etcetera
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.
writing views people
As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .
writing democracy want
I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.
writing want helping
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write. Nelson Algren