Quotes about writ
writing names use
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. Dean Koontz
writing artist advice
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.
writing publicity sometimes
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
writing might next
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.
writing artist guy
I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff. Daniel H. Wilson
writing men tales
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. Daniel Handler
writing being-the-best
I write storys to entertain not to be the best
writing math epic
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.
writing dying form
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
writing people ifs
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
writing next dies
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
writing firsts novel
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
writing thinking eight
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either."
writing media race
The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate. Dana Perino
writing thinking letters
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. Dana Gioia
writing ideas actors
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more. Dan Stevens
writing mean brain
I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music. Dan Auerbach
writing
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
writing mind knows
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
writing car motorcycle
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write. Dan Aykroyd
writing stories storytelling
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. Damon Lindelof
writing ideas feelings
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.
writing apology thinking
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.
writing taught opinion
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. Craig Claiborne
writing firsts different
One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus. Craig Finn
writing thinking people
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
writing thinking littles
Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.
writing law california
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. Craig Ferguson
writing thinking trying
I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?
writing night stuff
Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.
writing london imaginary
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Connie Willis
writing want share
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do? Clark Blaise
writing lasts way
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. Clarice Lispector