Quotes about writ
writing thinking years
I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous. Daniel Radcliffe
writing long challenges
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!
writing two people
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
writing pride giving
Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works. Daniel Clowes
writing thinking effort
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.
writing trying mood
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.
writing trying use
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose. Dan Harmon
writing years done
The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.
writing las-vegas lucky
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.
writing rocks gold
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
writing years long
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. Damon Albarn
writing good-writing
You have to go where the good writing is. Damian Lewis
writing people
I love writing about people on the road. Cynthia Kadohata
writing rough-edges creative
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing. Cory Doctorow
writing fiction stories
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
writing world chaotic
Write even when the world is chaotic.
writing silence inner-peace
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
writing thinking people
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head. Clive Owen
writing years insane
After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
writing people too-much
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. Clive James
writing important age
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.
writing thinking want
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.
writing prose-and-poetry formulas
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
writing fighting important
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle. Clint Eastwood
writing people wish
I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.
writing thinking waiting
The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the day after the election when [Donald] Trump is no longer in the picture. God, I can't wait for that. I hope he just goes away. Dylan Moran
writing giving mind
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write. e. e. cummings
writing wings bird
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up. E. B. White
writing murder obscenity
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
writing trying deals
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
writing men political
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
writing style franklin
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.
writing exercise drink
I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.