Quotes about writ
writing tough
Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough. Stephen Chow
writing white paper
on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will. Stephen Chbosky
writing breaking-apart knows
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.
writing process direct
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.
writing creating world
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.
writing joy pay
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.
writing interviews surprise
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong." Stephen Colbert
writing athletic intellectual
Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.
writing fearless fiction
You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.
writing cities doctors
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook. Steffi Graf
writing san-francisco productions
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered. Stella Benson
writing court members
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. Sonia Sotomayor
writing doors tears
You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her! Sophie Kinsella
writing mean issues
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
writing way feels
The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.
writing ebay amazon
When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.
writing rooms desks
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. Thomas Pynchon
writing actors
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing. Thomas Haden Church
writing digging done
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. Thomas Harris
writing three window
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
writing novel
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
writing artist ideas
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. Thomas Hardy
writing order turkeys
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. Thomas B. Macaulay
writing conversation should
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
writing mathematics abomination
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
writing preparation darts
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. Thomas Hobbes
writing color years
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well. Tim Wise
writing important able
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. Tim Vine
writing heart recovery
Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain. Tim Bray
writing funny-travel
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. Tim Cahill
writing adventure army
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.
writing air cows
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.
writing editors needs
Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they...