Quotes about writ
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
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. Catherine Deneuve
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. Cary Fukunaga
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. Cary Grant
writing self-improvement self-help
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. Cary Grant
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