Quotes about writ
writing want score
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged. Stephen Sondheim
writing
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
writing hands ideas
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
writing broadway causes
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
writing way hardest
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
writing space lines
You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
writing actors way
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
writing greed not-good-enough
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
writing paper consciousness
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
writing musical
Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.
writing restriction easier
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
writing reason
The only reason to write is from love.
writing hollywood comedy
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. Stephen Gaghan
writing office special
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. Stephen Greenblatt
writing listening-to-music
But I never listen to music while I'm writing.
writing dancing singing
Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig
writing thinking giving
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
writing successful dancing
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.
writing talking fiction
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some. Stephen Graham Jones
writing thinking long
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.
writing years ideas
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.
writing thinking hands
I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more. Mother Teresa
writing hands likes
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
writing cutting hands
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.
writing white ties
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work. Mona Simpson
writing exciting
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds. Molly Shannon
writing write-your-own
If it's not happening, write your own thing!
writing painful process
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful Monica Denise Brown
writing escaping boredom
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian. Monica Ali
writing people perceive
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. Molly Ringwald
writing thinking hard
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
writing long acting
I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.
writing law caves
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf