Quotes about writ
writing night infinite
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Elias Canetti
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
writing people buried
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. Elia Kazan
writing waiting merit
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
writing people design
You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach. Eli Roth
writing self creative
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
writing kind one-thing-at-a-time
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
writing thinking careers
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
writing opportunity men
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. B. C. Forbes
writing men years
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
writing able talent
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally. Ashanti
writing creating albums
When I'm writing my album, it's totally my world. Even though it's myself and another producer creating the project, Conceptually it's more under my power and on my own terms. At the same time, it's a different type of pressure because I'm ultimately speaking, I'm solely responsible for the end result.
writing imagine careful
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. Asghar Farhadi
writing thinking want
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
writing thinking world
Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.
writing weather track
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail. Arthur Hailey
writing people able
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
writing grandchildren grandparent
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. Arthur Hertzberg
writing thinking laughing
Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh. Armando Iannucci
writing thinking political
I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.
writing acting-right right-now
For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now. Ben Savage
writing pages let-me
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Ben Schwartz
writing thinking progression
I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ. Bat for Lashes
writing ideas creative
The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk. Barbara Corcoran
writing voice might
Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice. Avi
writing tree hills
Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry. Ashley Rickards
writing men needs
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. Ashley Montagu
writing cutting track
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape. Bernie Worrell
writing research fiction-and-nonfiction
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Bruce Sterling
writing data names
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
writing brilliant
Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him. Bruce Vilanch
writing screens
I do a lot of screen re-writing.
writing film notes
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films. Bruce Bennett