Quotes about writ
writing people stupidity
My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them. Woody Allen
writing doors years
During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].
writing actors alive
I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.
writing math discovery
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.
writing narrative facts
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. William Shenstone
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
writing musical style
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
writing long house
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
writing done way
Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done. William Saroyan
writing careers shortcuts
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
writing stories easy
All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
writing play way
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
writing littles way
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
writing ill-health despair
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
writing thinking sentimental
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
writing mean america
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.
writing veterinarian knows
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
writing men lazy-man
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. William Shatner
writing discovery stories
You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
writing humanity way
Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. William McIlvanney
writing years form
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. William Nicholson
writing dozen great-american
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
writing knows not-alone
We write to know we are not alone
writing soul shows
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? William McFee
writing sacrifice bird
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be! William Morris Hunt
writing connections mars
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? William J. Clinton
writing fiction novelists
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. William Gibson
writing shopping lists
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
writing autism known
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
writing order stories
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.
writing lazy fiction
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
writing overcoming natural
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.