Quotes about writ
writing play voice
I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show. Dennis Quaid
writing speak inappropriate
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. Dennis Prager
writing thinking mirrors
If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write
writing thinking understanding
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think. Dennis Green
writing requirements way
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. Dennis Hastert
writing want humans
In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being. Denis Johnson
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.
writing starting-over interesting
If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work. Dean Koontz
writing interesting people
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. Demetri Martin
writing night thinking
I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.
writing hours week
When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
writing talking desire
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
writing thinking people
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
writing pages revising
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
writing ideas literature
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
writing plot pasta
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
writing names use
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
writing artist advice
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.
writing publicity sometimes
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
writing might next
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.
writing artist guy
I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff. Daniel H. Wilson
writing men tales
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. Daniel Handler
writing being-the-best
I write storys to entertain not to be the best
writing math epic
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.
writing dying form
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
writing people ifs
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writing next dies
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
writing firsts novel
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
writing thinking eight
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either."
writing media race
The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate. Dana Perino
writing thinking letters
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. Dana Gioia
writing ideas actors
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more. Dan Stevens
writing mean brain
I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music. Dan Auerbach