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writing actors performers
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. John Cleese
writing laughing people
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
writing reality people
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.
writing creativity way
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
writing thinking years
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!
writing people happens
I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.
writing years class
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.
writing limits
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. M. Scott Peck
writing opportunity world
I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak. Lurlene McDaniel
writing people trying
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.' Lupe Fiasco
writing long rejection
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Louise Brown
writing battle fiction
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. John Cheever
writing stories kind
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
writing blake make-sense
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
writing kissing done
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
writing nuclear roles
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
writing needs make-sense
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
writing ego promise
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
writing kissing reader
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
writing years stressed
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers. John Bolton
writing appreciate television
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
writing past stories
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel. John Boyne
writing ideas want
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. John Amos
written
You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin. Constance Zimmer
writing imagination stories
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination. Maurice Sendak
writing age extraordinary
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.
writing together pieces
I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle. Matt Sharp
writing secret famous-writers
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. Matthew Arnold
writing men two
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
writing people trying
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive." Things should be better. Matt Taibbi
writing good-writing
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it. Meg Wolitzer
writing imagination why-we-write
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write. Meg Rosoff
writing dark self
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.