Quotes about writ
writing joy
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. Virginia Woolf
writing way wells
The way to write well is to live intensely. Virginia Woolf
writing people silence
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. Virginia Woolf
writing together crafts
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. Virginia Woolf
writing world
All the time she writing the world had continued. Virginia Woolf
writing skills keys
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. William Bernbach
writing play needs
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play. Wendy Wasserstein
writing successful intelligent
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed. Wendy Wasserstein
writing character long
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story. Wendy Wasserstein
writing organization together
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between. Werner Herzog
writing editing creating
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. Werner Herzog
writing writing-music connections
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. Wayne Shorter
writing play want
Play and write music the way you want the world to be. Wayne Shorter
writing wanted
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word. Walker Evans
writing thinking people
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all. Wallace Shawn
writing thinking average
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year. Wallace Shawn
writing views years
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are. Wallace Shawn
writing play ideas
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it. Wallace Shawn
writing thinking years
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one. Wallace Shawn
writing common instance
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance? Wallace Shawn
writing thinking play
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence. Wallace Shawn
writing physicians medical
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of. Walker Percy
writing titles metaphor
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. Walker Percy
writing materials ifs
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. Wallace Stegner
writing heart cutting
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. Wallace Stegner
writing fiction peculiar
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation. Wallace Stegner
writing want knows
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out. Wallace Stegner
writing practice skills
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. Wallace Stegner
writing make-sense
We write to make sense of it all. Wallace Stegner
writing want ends
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. Samuel Beckett
writing letters life-is
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured. Samuel Beckett
writing joyce
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. Samuel Beckett
writing two waste
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. Samuel Beckett