Quotes about writ
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 imagination stories
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination. Maurice Sendak
writing age extraordinary
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.
writing together pieces
I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle. Matt Sharp
writing quiet-moments silence
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment. Mark Lawrence
writing people weapons
An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. Mario Benedetti
writing thinking world
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
writing character sometimes
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself. Marilyn Manson
writing faces dare
I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.
writing character healthy
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. Michael K. Williams
writing thinking comedy
I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is. Michael Hirst
writing men emotional
Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. Michael Gurian
writing facts mass
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. Michael Hastings
writing two people
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations. Michael Haneke
writing roles actors
I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.
writing dark thinking
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.