Quotes about writ
writing editing self
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. David Mitchell
writing i-can
I can write pretty much anywhere.
writing
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
writing winter would-be
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
writing space effort
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing. David Knopfler
writing scared difficult
I got scared away from the whole writing and producing thing, because of how really, truly difficult this was. David Krumholtz
writing
We had very, very, very little money to make the show [ Gigi Does It]. We shot every episode in two days. It was non-WGA, non-DGA, so we couldn't write anything. The whole thing had to be improv.
writing emotional thinking
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write. David Gray
writing way said
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it. David Guterson
writing my-family
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
writing college class
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
writing inspire stories
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
writing advice wells
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
writing groups composer
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. David Del Tredici
writing symphony musical
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
writing issues language
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. David Crystal
writing attention drunkenness
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. David Crosby
writing brain
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain. David Cross
writing upset female
And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.
writing thinking ideas
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.
writing views people
I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are? Dave Barry
writing thinking care
When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.
writing despair elements
Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.
writing transition machines
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.
writing thinking people
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going.
writing differences giving
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists. David Suchet
writing thinking epic
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. David Talbot
writing law giving
All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law. David Rubenstein
writing mean play
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence. . . . I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling. David Rabe
writing littles conscious
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. David Rakoff
writing guarantees-that easier
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
writing hands league
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. David R. Brower
writing giving tables
What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else. David Morse