Quotes about writ
writing ready has-beens
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. Roger Ascham
writing littles too-much
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
writing listening say-anything
They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing." Roger Ailes
writing jumping way
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. Robin Wasserman
writing levels kind
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it. Robin Williams
writing thinking patterns
There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules. Robin Ince
writing waiting permission
Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate. Robin Hobb
writing people want
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
writing unique ideas
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.
writing robins your-future
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
writing sitting littles
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
writing past artist
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are. Robert Venturi
writing mind life-experience
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer. Robert Rodriguez
writing ideas people
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
writing people tasks
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content. Robert Motherwell
writing form extensions
Form is never more than an extension of content. Robert Creeley
writing hopefully knows
Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
writing men thinking
I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
writing school unique
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication. Robert Cormier
writing intelligent thinking
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
writing needs phases
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter. Robert Collier
writing space people
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. Rob Thurman
writing scripts mainstream
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see. Rob Zombie
writing
That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old. Rob Halford
writing
I rarely write by myself.
writing thinking careers
It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing." Rob Corddry
writing thinking acting
I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.
writing winning oscars
I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.
writing defined decided
I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.
writing novel novel-writing
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,
writing imagination active
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out. Richard Paul Evans
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.