Quotes about writ
writing writing-essays theory
I don't like writing essays or theory. Adrian Mitchell
writing ideas flow
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out. Adora Svitak
writing opportunity ice-cream
When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe. Adam Young
writing
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. Adam Rapp
writing needs speak
It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
writing different world
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.
writing typical
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
writing play people
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
writing thinking trying
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are. Adam Hochschild
writing thinking speak
I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Adam Gopnik
writing thinking practice
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
writing winning your-side
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
writing climate kind
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
writing joy said
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Ada Leverson
writing life-is unpredictable
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance. Abraham Joshua Heschel
writing artist self
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. Abraham Maslow
writing lazy sermons
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop Abraham Lincoln
writing people recycling
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. Alex North
writing not-good-enough levels
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet. Alex O'Loughlin
writing acting different
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different. Aleksa Palladino
writing ideas down-and
I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place. Alessia Cara
writing film hard
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience. Alessandro Nivola
writing effort noble
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity. Aleksandar Hemon
writing literature assumption
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
writing fighting different
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).
writing thinking years
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.
writing bad-writing language
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
writing agency different
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.
writing related
To write has to be related to a drive inside.
writing fiction literature
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
writing long retreat
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
writing sometimes said
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."