Quotes about writ
writing looks trouble
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look. Robert Kirkman
writing political interest
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. Robert Harris
writing trying four
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
writing heart stories
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
writing years too-late
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
writing thinking years
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. Robert H. Schuller
writing games advice
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the public, I have immediate feedback. There are so many things I want to say - about events in the news, politics, the gamesmanship and manipulations I read about, thoughts that occur to me about the power game, advice, on and on. Robert Greene
writing talking space
One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.
writing working-for-a-living
Writing thats not working for a living. Robert Asprin
writing umpires ideas
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. Robert B. Parker
writing want twenties
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.
writing pages five
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
writing acceptance order
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.
writing parent want
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
writing people advice
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
writing ideas people
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you. Robert Anton Wilson
writing editors long
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. Ricky Jay
writing easier
Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
writing stage young
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.
writing practice confusing
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split! Richard Lederer
writing today tongue
Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
writing use clay
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that. Richard Linklater
writing criticism film
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
writing positive-thinking opportunity
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. Richard M. Nixon
writing thinking kind
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy. Rian Johnson
writing way like-you
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.
writing editing feelings
When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
writing want fool
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
writing thinking data
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way. Rebecca Skloot
writing together stories
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together. Rebecca Stead
writing thinking miracle
Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be. Rebecca Miller
writing mind synthesis
I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.
writing frustration color
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.