Quotes about writ
writing honor-and-respect use
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life. Nick Flynn
writing needs print
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
writing good-day
On a good day I write, all day.
writing creative hot
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process. Nick Frost
writing poet essays
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. Nicholson Baker
writing pseudonyms would-be
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
writing chance moments
If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.
writing people trying
Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.
writing thinking three
Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.
writing piano guitar
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano, Norah Jones
writing thinking paper
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all. Nora Ephron
writing confusion directing-movies
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
writing views tone
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.
writing boys males
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?' - because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'
writing interesting trying
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
writing acceptance care
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
writing hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing about writing is writing.
writing pleasure wells
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. Nora Roberts
writing firsts stories
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
writing laptops
I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
writing process
I loved the process of writing.
writing pages blank
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
writing knowing expectations
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
writing plagiarism difficult
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
writing cleaners
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
writing careers reader
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
writing romance categories
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
writing important pages
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
writing thinking stories
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
writing pages blank-pages
You can fix anything but a blank page.
writing pages blank
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
writing needs
I need to write to be happy.
writing heaven soul
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer! Nikos Kazantzakis