Quotes about writ
writing thinking work-out
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you Bret Easton Ellis
writing knows
I don't know why I write what I write.
writing dedication skills
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
writing issues scripts
I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is.
writing errors life-is-like
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
writing years two
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
writing criticism research
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.
writing quality idiot
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot. Bram Cohen
writing direct
Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material. Brady Corbet
writing people feelings
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it. Brandi Carlile
writing men voice
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. Brandon Boyd
writing expression listening
I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
writing people trying
Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live. Don Cheadle
writing
I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
writing foolish draws
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. Djuna Barnes
writing thinking political
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
writing interesting firsts
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
writing attention starting
What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself. Dianna Agron
writing supportive dinner
I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear a British designer for the state dinner...From there, I was so embarrassed that I am definitely going to write to her. She has been super supportive to American designers. Diane von Furstenberg
writing literature world
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. David Amram
writing journey land
Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land. David Almond
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
writing simple psychics
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. David Allen
writing thinking ideas
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do. Dave Douglas
writing trying together
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing. Dave Franco
writing love-is lawyer
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. David Shapiro
writing reserves
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like. David Sedaris
writing tools use
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
writing editors editing
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.
writing mean knowing
She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.
writing happens
There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.
writing effort community
Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort.