Quotes about writ
writing people realization
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read. John Kenneth Galbraith
writing years iowa
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. John Dalton
writing majority brian
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material. John Deacon
writing reality color
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write. John D. MacDonald
writing people purpose
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
writing differences knowing
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk. John Cassavetes
writing realistic compare
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.
writing careers isolated-places
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time. Lois McMaster Bujold
writing best-things including
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
writing indifference writing-poems
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. Lisel Mueller
writing language wells
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
writing facts autobiography
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
writing college thinking
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
writing italian play
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play. Lloyd Kaufman
writing thinking bullets
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Lynn Abbey
writing ideas always-trying
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
writing stories novel
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
writing discouraging blinded
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
writing goal buckets
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. Lynda Barry
writing names missing
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
writing fate order
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.
writing may want
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. Lyndon B. Johnson
writing waiting acting
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. Lukas Haas
writing years lifetime
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. Lukas Foss
writing creative letters
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
writing way felt
Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. Luke Evans
writing less-is-more
Less is more. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
writing character long
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin. Lucas Neff
writing ideas waiting
Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
writing brain language
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. Louise Leakey
writing today embarrassed
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. Louise Mensch
writing law serious
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
writing thinking novel
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. Louise Penny