Quotes about writ
writing guitar piano
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. Trey Anastasio
writing parks scene
It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works. Trey Parker
writing eye space
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes. Tracy K. Smith
writing august should-have
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work. Tracy Letts
writing next hell
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
writing character shoes
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't -- like me right now -- people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.
writing adjectives care
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum. Tracy Chevalier
writing tired feel-good
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
writing thinking interesting
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
writing done copying
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia Tracy Kidder
writing thinking people
People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
writing enough interest
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
writing thinking shows
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
writing revision prose
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
writing
Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write. Tracy Morgan
writing sides bigs
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. Tori Amos
writing important territory
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. Van Wyck Brooks
writing weight way
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day. Valerie Bertinelli
writing airports paper
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. Upamanyu Chatterjee
writing interesting care
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. Uma Thurman
writing fake conspiracy
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes. Umberto Eco
writing poet elizabethan
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
writing names ideas
I started to write [ The Name of the Rose ] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
writing doors forgiving
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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 hard
Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time. Roger Angell
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 creative students
I was an A student and I liked creative writing. Trisha Yearwood
writing thinking mind
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. Trenton Lee Stewart
writing thinking centering
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am. Trent Reznor