Quotes about writ
writing acting talent
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. Anita Loos
writing thinking important
I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
writing rocks challenges
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing. Andrew Taylor
writing thinking years
I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking. Andrew Sullivan
writing trying stories
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. Andrew Solomon
writing sleep people
For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it. Andrew Luck
writing college people
When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes. Andrew Lloyd Webber
writing care want
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
writing thinking piano
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
writing thinking way
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world. Andrea Arnold
writing mind actors
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
writing class grew
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
writing giving doe
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape. Andre Maurois
writing negative novel
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
writing maturity expectations
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
writing needs amelie
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write. Amelie Nothomb
writing views amelie
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
writing rocks
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. Andrew Eldritch
writing stories love-story
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically. Andrew Davies
writing editors light
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. Ambrose Bierce
writing bird feelings
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.
writing nonsense
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
writing character science
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
writing thinking people
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
writing genius aim
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. Anthony Hope
writing promise vivid
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite. Anthony Hecht
writing years literature
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years. Anthony Holden
writing thinking worry
He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
writing different different-things
I love writing different things. Anthony Horowitz
writing creating world
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
writing magic spy
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
writing writing-music composing
I'm composing and writing music. Anthony Hopkins
writing play backgrounds
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.