Quotes about writ
writing unique men
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner. Jacob Bronowski
writing science discovery
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.
writing voice people
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody. Harvey Fierstein
writing acting shows
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
writing unsaid great-power
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Louise Gluck
writing my-time
I spend most of my time writing. Louise Erdrich
writing people impossible
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
writing way i-can
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
writing trying crude
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
writing hard-work thinking
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. Gene Wilder
writing track laughing
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
writing waiting mind
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. James M. Cain
writing college typewriters
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.
writing night ifs
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
writing wish reason
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
writing problem foreign-policy
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
writing age lawyer
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer. James Lipton
writing elation may
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.
writing two miracle
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
writing biographies may
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me. James M. Barrie
writing omnipotence feelings
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. James L. Brooks
writing people office
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. James Laughlin
writing come-up critics
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively. Joe Pantoliano
writing tonight way
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way. Joe Rogan
writing way idiot
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. Joe Eszterhas
writing cutting thinking
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
writing political want
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. Joan D. Vinge
writing perfect goddess
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing color water
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
writing different fiction
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
writing answers novel
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
writing elements performances
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.