Quotes about writ
writing
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many. Juvenal
written
The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. Eric Schmidt
writing i-can ifs
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed. Alanis Morissette
writing expression piano
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
writing people records
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!
writing writing-music enjoy
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
writing home dresses
There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
writing thinking mind
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. Blaise Pascal
writing mathematical please
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
writing desire wish
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
writing style natural
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
writing winning thinking
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do. Billy Boyd
writing sake want
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. Billie Joe Armstrong
writing thinking directors
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. Billy Bob Thornton
writing style kind
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.
writing voice people
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.
writing helping kind
I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.
writing character film
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
writing thinking people
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
writing easy music-is
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. Bill Haley
writing wells accord
I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one." Bill Hader
writing want actors
I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.
writing generations asking
I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered. Bill James
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. Dick Van Dyke
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
writing people design
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler Dennis Ritchie
writing way language
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.