Quotes about writ
writing thinking circles
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace. Matthew Tobin Anderson
writing
That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of. Matt Reeves
writing artist
When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist. Matt LeBlanc
writing knack way
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
writing opportunity thinking
Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making. Matt Mullenweg
writing people facts
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. Maya Rudolph
writing goal choices
I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
writing giving trying
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form. Maya Lin
writing ifs
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. Maynard James Keenan
writing men wish
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
writing lord angelou
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' Maya Angelou
writing apology thinking
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
writing black-and-white thinking
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
writing serious problem
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.
writing ignorance people
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
writing names want
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
writing get-over
You never get over the fear of writing.
writing people black
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
writing who-i-am darkness
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.
writing hair mind
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
writing law genius
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads. John Ruskin
writing thinking able
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
writing leaving pieces
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. John Prine
writing men names
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory. John Quincy Adams
writing rocks pieces
When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.
writing doors people
People ask, `What was it like when you wrote Stairway to Heaven?' As if three wisemen had come knocking on the door, `Excuse me, are you writing Stairway to Heaven here?' John Paul Jones
writing people house
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script. John Patrick Shanley
writing thinking people
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.
writing soul holiness
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24). John Owen
writing frustration wells
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. John Milton
writing together care
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. Norman Cousins
writing miles hardest
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. Norm MacDonald
writing annoyed wells
After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed. Noel Clarke