Quotes about writ
writing form force
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. Richard Flanagan
writing thinking should
I think writing should be about change.
writing thinking order
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. Richard Ford
writing years take-me
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
writing persistence done
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
writing stories influence
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
writing hands force
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
writing college hospitality
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
writing heart way
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
writing quality want
It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out. Richard Gere
writing elderly people
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. Ricardo Montalban
writing men thinking
Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway. Rich Sommer
writing people
Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write? Rich Mullins
writing veins down-and
Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein. Red Barber
writing memoir stills
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs. Rebecca Wells
writing glasses challenges
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.
writing together actors
For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together. Reba McEntire
writing thinking names
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw! Rebecca Hall
writing home weekend
Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike... Rebel Wilson
writing moon listening
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. Robert Duvall
writing years want
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them. Robert De Niro
writing ifs
If you like not my writing, go read something else. Robert Burton
writing people appreciate
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing. Robert Caro
writing long afternoon
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
writing bed wells
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
writing tired trying
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is essentially rewriting. Roald Dahl
writing stories fifty
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
writing important modesty
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
writing long-walks long
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
writing two people
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
writing stories pleasure
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
writing felt
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it. Rob Bell