Quotes about writ
writing taught
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. Colm Toibin
writing age barcelona
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
writing firsts fountain
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
writing manipulation realizing
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
writing people inspire
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing. Common
writing organization association
I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. Colum McCann
writing knows
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
writing waste scripts
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. Cliff Martinez
writing years two
Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
writing cutting waste
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
writing want information
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code Clifford Geertz
writing research literature
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
writing done ends
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
writing style academic
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
writing play interesting
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it. Dashiell Hammett
writing secret songwriting
The secret of a great melody is a secret. Dave Brubeck
writing years two
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due. Darren Criss
writing comic jokes
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Dave Attell
writing voice parent
The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa... Write it down!
writing hands oysters
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead. Davy Crockett
writing time-zones brain
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone. Dawn French
writing past imagination
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
writing joy simply-love
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
writing joy sitting
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
writing chocolate television
I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
writing way deadline
On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way. Davy Rothbart
writing school night
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
writing thinking pieces
Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while. David Starkey
writing voice feelings
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
writing accomplishment important
I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in remaining visible in the online world. That said, I'm personally turned off by writers' blogs that do nothing but sing their own accomplishments.
writing thinking might
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.
writing thinking play
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.
writing opportunity creative
We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships. David Simon