Quotes about writ
writing transition machines
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition. Dave Barry
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. Dave Barry
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. David Rakoff
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
writing school years
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. David Niven
writing mathematical-equations long
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. Carl Sagan
writing light mind
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. Byron Katie
writing judging four
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around. Byron Katie
writing long fiction
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. Buddy Ebsen
writing thinking play
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. Buddy Rich
writing keys giving
If you give the actors a problem 'I'm not getting something out of the scene' and it's the writing, we just don't have the scene, if you give them the problem and just give them some key thoughts they can bring some great solutions to the equation too. So if it's just not perfect, or I'm not getting all I can, I'll open it up to them and say let's talk about it. Bryan Singer
writing school passion
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting. Bryce Dallas Howard
writing done orchestra
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras. Bryan Ferry
writing stories may
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'. Bryce Courtenay
writing trying appeals
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams
writing thinking different
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different. Chace Crawford
writing two three
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day. Chad Harbach
writing ideas parent
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea. Chad Harbach
writing poetry making-love
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. Cesare Pavese
writing talking two
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. Cesare Pavese
writing ideas fire
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. Cesare Pavese
writing effort pages
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. Cesare Pavese
writing black fiction
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. Catherine Drinker Bowen
writing artist people
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality? Catherine Drinker Bowen
writing kind
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. Catherine Drinker Bowen
writing reality thinking
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. Catherine Drinker Bowen
writing usa architect
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing. Catherine Hardwicke