Quotes about writ
writing limits able
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
writing editing four
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
writing expression obscure
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought. Nicolas Chamfort
writing years ideas
I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control. Nick Swardson
writing stories rewards
The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it. Nick Earls
writing anxiety needs
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.
writing people stories
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.
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.