Quotes about writ
writing fiction way
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable. David Foster Wallace
writing hands people
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place. David Cook
writing detectives reporters
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. David Coleman
writing moral filmmaker
I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian. David Cronenberg
writing worry hot
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
writing different difficult
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
writing keys people
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
writing college firsts
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.
writing encounters questions-and-answers
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.
writing thinking technique
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
writing thinking writing-poems
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. David Antin
writing remember imagine
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
writing self scripts
I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated. David Ayer
writing sticks notes
When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. Don Mattingly
writing media attention
I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.
writing night sticks
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
writing guitar play
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it. Don Johnson
writing simple way
Simple is the only way I can write. Don Gibson
writing acting roles
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare. Dylan McDermott
writing world today
The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it. Dylan Thomas
writing exercise vanity
I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity. Dylan Moran
writing joy surreal
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
writing thinking differences
You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.
writing passion medicine
You do bits and you fake anger and you write a bit and you have passion for it. Then you do it too many times and you have to work up the anger... and I've never had to do that with Dr. Drew Pintsky. Dr. Drew is to medicine what David Blaine is to science. Doug Stanhope
writing sitting artistic
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny. Douglas Adams
writing years fascination
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.
writing thinking stuff
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.
writing pockets would-be
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.
writing ideas often-can
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
writing expression personality
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.
writing cutting technology
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing
writing battle problem
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.
writing stories magazines
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know? Dorothea Benton Frank