Quotes about writ
writing important sometimes
Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else. Randy Newman
writing paper stuff
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
writing creativity thinking
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it. Randa Abdel-Fattah
writing rights passionate
With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
writing reality writing-fiction
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. Ralph Peters
writing smell sweat
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat. Eric Hoffer
writing obscurity pieces
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.
writing lunch waiting
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.
writing ideas sickness
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .
writing play acting
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. Eric Bogosian
writing past people
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
writing thinking people
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
writing
I write, but I also act.
writing creative television
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. Eric Bana
writing giving important
Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All. Ennio Morricone
writing score used
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.
writing diaries
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell
writing careers people
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write. James Franco
writing tasmania should
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania. James Cook
writing worst
Writing is the worst part of being a writer. James Atlas
writing adventure mean
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging. James Anthony Froude
writing tv-shows long
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope its something that can have a long life. Jake Kasdan
writing wind flying
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. Jacques Lacan
writing used roof
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics Henry Rollins
writing desire talent
I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
writing opportunity long
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
writing years people
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
writing trying heartbreaking
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
writing views stuff
I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
writing simple thinking
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
writing preparation stage
With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
writing speak
I like how I write better than how I speak.
writing impact connections
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.