Quotes about writ
writing different filmmaker
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations. Sandra Cisneros
writing giving people
I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
writing discipline mind
To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes. Roseanne Barr
writing should wells
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
writing television easier
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.
writing order able
In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.
writing tv-shows tvs
I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling. Rory Bremner
writing way knows
There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself. Rokia Traore
writing guitar play
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.
writing voice destruction
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Roland Barthes
writing practice space
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.
writing causes doe
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.
writing speak
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
writing desire language
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
writing mad motto
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
writing trouble concentration
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. Roger Ebert
writing get-better things-you-can-control
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
writing problem invisible
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
writing past phases
It has gone past me now, the writing phase. Rod Stewart
writing men march
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's. Rod Serling
writing media voice
I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.
writing wanted written
I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.
writing compulsion knows
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
writing caring thinking
It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.
writing men thinking
I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.
writing ifs
If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.
writing thinking years
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.
writing thinking years
I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.
writing frustration skulls
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
writing way producers
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!
writing men thinking
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
writing way enough
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.
writing creative fiction
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.