Quotes about writ
writing thinking artist
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself. August Wilson
writing audience particular
I don't write for a particular audience.
writing responsibility artist
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.
writing editing eloquent
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
writing men who-i-am
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.
writing breathing painful
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing ... Audre Lorde
writing circles racism
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
writing needs
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there
writing play kind
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery. Athol Fugard
writing night thinking
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
writing thinking years
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
writing love-and-death subjects
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? Arthur Schnitzler
writing waiting feelings
Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not. Arnold J. Toynbee
writing echoes oneself
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. Arnold Bennett
writing scope length
The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write. Edward M. Lerner
writing faithful way
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. Edmund White
writing two say-anything
Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.
writing forgotten draws
In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.
writing games challenges
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be
writing america desire
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
writing fetus
Writing is like carrying a fetus. Edna O'Brien
writing heart cutting
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
writing thieves littles
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
writing climbing mountain
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Edna Ferber
writing thinking order
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
writing thinking order
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.
writing years done
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.
writing reflection tools
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
writing climbing interesting
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
writing personality musical
I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities. Edgar Meyer
writing new-experiences self
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. Edgar Winter
writing thinking tv-shows
Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together. Edgar Wright
writing rotten stories
I could write stories just as rotten. Edgar Rice Burroughs