Quotes about writ
writing cooking might
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show. Christopher Walken
writing strive lyrical
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf Christopher Paolini
writing thinking self
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write. Christopher Paolini
writing character people
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords. Christopher Paolini
writing boys mind
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind. Christopher McQuarrie
writing too-much way
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it. Christopher McQuarrie
writing way watches
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films. Christopher McQuarrie
writing years novelists
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. Christopher McQuarrie
writing diaries knows
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Christopher Morley
writing circles two
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me? Christopher Moore
writing world sometimes
I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world. Ansel Elgort
writing brain let-it-go
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain. Annie Proulx
writing thinking space
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. Annie Proulx
writing quality etc
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is. Ansel Adams
writing practice groups
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more. Anne Archer
writing criticism shells
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell. Anne Beatts
writing gun what-if
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'" Andrew Bird
writing hopeful motivated
I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated. Andrew Bird
writing fit chords
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. Andrew Bird
writing sometimes enjoy
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes. Andrew Bird
writing advice
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Amos Oz
writing
Don't write about that which you don't know. Amos Oz
writing sacrifice night
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices. Amos Oz
writing process avoiding
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Amy Bloom
writing practice differences
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me. Amy Bloom
writing novel
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. Amos Oz
writing miracle mutual
I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. Amos Oz
writing people enemy
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. Amos Oz
writing novel listen-to-me
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business. Amos Oz
writing giving perspective
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides. Amos Oz
writing appearance novel
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. Amos Oz
writing
I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. Amos Oz
writing hebrew
I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words. Amos Oz