Quotes about writ
writing lucky enough
When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow. Nestor Carbonell
writing
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism. Nick Cannon
writing pages way
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again. Noah Hawley
writing waiting tvs
In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before ... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.
writing airplane up-early
If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.
writing people social-media
I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email. Noam Chomsky
writing justice challenges
I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who portray themselves and perceive themselves as challenging power, as courageous, as standing up for truth and justice. They are basically the guardians of the faith. They set the limits. They tell us how far we can go. They say, 'Look how courageous I am.' But do not go one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they are the most dangerous in supporting power.
writing thinking important
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies.
writing elements done
I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first. Mike Patton
writing mean thinking
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry. John Ashbery
writing want knows
I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.
writing mind
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
writing trying lawyer
I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible. Joe Scarborough
writing people world
There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world. right now. Joe Swanberg
writing slogans
Don't write slogans, write truths. Joe Strummer
writing want
You want to write something as good as what you've read. Jodi Picoult
writing ivory-tower three
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
writing character shoes
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
writing kids hands
I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.
writing thinking issues
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
writing mean different
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
writing garbage force
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.
writing might pages
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
writing people fiction
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. John Grisham
writing people stories
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
writing long fiction
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
writing hints stories
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.
writing hours desks
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
writing generosity use
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity. Ken Tucker
writing gardening magazines
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it! Ken Thompson
writing ideas waste
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation. Kenneth Koch
writing interesting details
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
writing silence use
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.