Quotes about writ
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. William Shatner
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.
writing written
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
writing would-be fiction
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
writing ice melting
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
writing people scary
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
writing levels accepting
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. Will Champion
writing editing trying
I never go to the monitor. I just look at the camera monitor and my favorite part of all of the directing, except for the writing and editing of it, is right when we're rolling and they do lines and I'll say "Try this, try this, try this." Will Gluck
writing years lasts
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds. Will Friedle
writing thinking together
I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut. Will Forte
writing honest knows
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. Will Eisner
writing lions necks
[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject. Will Cuppy
writing goodness dare
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? Will Durant
writing men thinking
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write. Whitney Cummings
writing race interesting
Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I feel like I have it, I may as well express it, and if it's applicable to what I'm writing about and I'm not forcing it, I should try to use it, because it's interesting. It speaks to more than some people. Wesley Morris
writing ideas stuff-happens
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere. Sarah Silverman
writing mercy filmmaker
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.
writing class voice
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. Sara Zarr
writing littles way
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
writing trying difficult
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
writing ideas stories
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change. Sarah Addison Allen