Quotes about writ
writing trying unendurable
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore
writing thinking brain
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.
writing cutting long
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
writing way songwriting
You write a hit the same way you write a flop. Alan Jay Lerner
writing happens
You just write about things that happen. Alan Jackson
writing agriculture stupidity
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology. Alan Chadwick
writing play roots
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. Alan Bennett
writing trying acting
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Alan Alda
writing outkast thirteen
I started writing when I was about thirteen. Al Purdy
writing phones bullshit
I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes. Al Madrigal
writing hands lazy
The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
writing thinking kind
Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. Al Alvarez
writing difficult reader
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. Akhil Sharma
writing years mind
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
writing ideas numbers
When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit. Akira Kurosawa
writing funny-things people
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry. Aiden Wilson Tozer
writing thinking political
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
writing interesting firsts
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
writing attention starting
What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself. Dianna Agron
writing supportive dinner
I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear a British designer for the state dinner...From there, I was so embarrassed that I am definitely going to write to her. She has been super supportive to American designers. Diane von Furstenberg
writing literature world
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. David Amram
writing journey land
Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land. David Almond
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
writing simple psychics
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. David Allen
writing thinking ideas
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do. Dave Douglas
writing trying together
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing. Dave Franco
writing love-is lawyer
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. David Shapiro
writing reserves
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like. David Sedaris
writing tools use
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
writing editors editing
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.
writing mean knowing
She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.
writing happens
There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.
writing effort community
Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort.