Quotes about writ
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. Robert B. Parker
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.
writing historical-novels fantasy
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. Raymond E. Feist
writing ideas brilliant
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
writing order trying
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. Richard Russo
writing america interesting
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
writing fiction assuming
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
writing thinking views
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
writing thinking class
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
writing self views
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
writing mind next
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
writing thinking risk
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
writing character play
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to make her make sense. It took me awhile to learn that these three people were the core of this play, which seems so obvious now. Richard Greenberg
writing play new-day
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. Richard Foreman
writing artist guitar
I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist. Richard Fleeshman