Quotes about writ
writing world research
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it Sidney Sheldon
writing men important
I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.
writing pieces paper
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
writing
Writing only leads to more writing. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
writing judging down-and
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
writing quitting
I'm going to quit writing. Sidney Poitier
writing ifs creative-writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. Sholem Asch
writing joy desire
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone. Shonda Rhimes
writing one-day permission
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. Sherri Shepherd
writing tired order
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
writing pieces thanks
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
writing bored effort
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
writing blood remember
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
writing pages
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
writing years two
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
writing literature condescension-and
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
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.
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
writing people kind
The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row. Scott Snyder
writing creative drug
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative. Scott Caan
writing paper pads
But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
writing film direct
Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't. Scott Eastwood
writing mean people
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it. Seth Godin
writing talking eggs
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
writing decision trying
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
writing boys novelists
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.