Quotes about writ
writing home phones
As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress. Wendi McLendon-Covey
writing two upset
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it. Wendy Cope
writing people suggestions
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
writing mind easy
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it. Wanda Jackson
writing thinking phones
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone. Wanda Sykes
writing dumb asking
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
writing thinking ideas
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form. Julian Barnes
writing gaps advertising
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. Joss Stone
writing good-friend thinking
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too. Jostein Gaarder
writing letters six
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes Joseph Joubert
writing glasses vision
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
writing fancy rooms
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
writing years together
But the script's got to be at a level that makes it worth going back for, because it's a lot of work to make a movie like this and it's a multi-year project. So we've got our writer Jesse Wigutow on it right now writing, and fingers crossed if it all comes together, as we hope it will, there could be another Tron in the next few years, and it's going to be awesome. Joseph Kosinski
writing humans human-beings
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. Joss Whedon
writing cutting ideas
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.
writing empowerment ends
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
writing people guy
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
writing creating important
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
writing thinking ideas
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.
writing stories way
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.
writing play variation
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
writing earth want
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.
writing firefly people
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.
writing giving
I write to give myself strength.
writing class english-class
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
writing enough
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
writing past technology
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.
writing ideas firsts
If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
writing giving people
Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
writing perfect-days people
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.
writing epic people
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
writing rocks creative
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning. Kim Smith
writing talking voice
Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.