Quotes about writ
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. Roland Barthes
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 persons stills
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.
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.
writing successful goes-on
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.
writing successful years
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.
writing thinking people
I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.
writing simple ordinary-days
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.
writing should feels
I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.
writing dwarves dwarfs
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
writing way tomorrow
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
writing differences people
Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.
writing night light
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.