Quotes about writ
writing important stories
Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me. Catherine Deneuve
writing people lucky
I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
writing stories firsts
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14. Cary Fukunaga
writing thinking painful
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
writing spy nazi
I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else. Cary Grant
writing people world
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
writing self-improvement self-help
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
writing great-men wells
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
writing piano basics
Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano. Caroline Corr
writing stories rejected
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. Caroline B. Cooney
writing influence
I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor. Carole King
writing people feel-good
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
writing kind process
I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. Caroline Kennedy
writing trying scripts
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur. Carlton Cuse
writing voice incense
...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' Carlos Santana
writing stories letters
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
writing tales died
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
writing tools literature
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
writing expression lines
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.
writing night dragons
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.
writing novelists human-nature
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
writing hands ideas
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility. Camille Paglia
writing thinking years
Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.
writing night brain
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. Caleb Carr
writing the-end-of-the-day quitting
At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit. Caleb Followill
writing want ends
In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. Caitlin Moran
writing should-have dull
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
writing research
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit. C. J. Box
writing silence eating
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me. C. K. Williams
writing waiting different
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
writing thinking editors
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. C. S. Forester
writing home wrecks
Novel writing wrecks homes.
writing way ends
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.