Quotes about writ
writing different world
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile. Melissa Rosenberg
writing play stories
The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.
writing world pushing
When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.
writing life-happens happens
Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. Melissa Etheridge
writing keyboards fingers
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living. Melissa Marr
writing appreciate age
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.
writing thinking east
I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself. Michael Trevino
writing cutting people
I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with. Michael Tomasky
writing thinking joy
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation. Michael Stipe
writing house feelings
I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end. Michael Palin
writing thinking modern
I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
writing space people
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. Michael Ondaatje
writing lovers blind
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
writing would-be
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
writing world kind
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
writing ideas no-idea
Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
writing want opinion
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
writing god-knows has-beens
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
writing bored stories
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
writing stories plot
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.
writing views perception
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
writing thinking hands
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
writing character long
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
writing over-you credit
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. Michael McKean
writing blood two
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time. Michael McMillian
writing government independence
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. Michael McCaul
writing hacking fiction
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. Neal Stephenson
writing oxford ideas
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
writing interesting stories
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.
writing tears down-and
I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed. Neale Donald Walsch
writing caring helping-others
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.
writing traits
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching. Morley Callaghan
writing thinking acting
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not. Morgan Freeman