Quotes about writ
writing scott-fitzgerald way
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s. Garrett Hedlund
writing reflection years
My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this is not good enough. We got to create our own shows. I said, but we're very happy doing this. No, no, no, you got to get your own show. So he made me - and he and I created our own shows. And we actually - everything we created failed. "Hey, Landlord" was our first show - 99th in the ratings. But imagine this - it's a great reflection on the years. Garry Marshall
writing bishops way
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.
writing ambitious radio
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.
writing comedian clubs
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on.
writing satisfaction feels
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
writing frustration people
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. Garrison Keillor
writing laptops impossible
I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
writing giving want
You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.
writing dark talking
For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.
writing thinking people
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
writing thinking editors
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.
writing ironic young-writers
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
writing tragic
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. Gabrielle Roy
writing cutting knives
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story. Frank Yerby
writing soul suffering
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter. Francois Fenelon
writing editors differences
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do. Frank Deford
writing giving people
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?
writing novelists
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. Francois Truffaut
writing creative suits
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop. Francois Mauriac
writing police houston
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification. Frank Abagnale
writing easy
It is easy to write unthinking music.
writing wish sometimes
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. George Crabbe
writing creative acting
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. George Clooney
writing thinking want
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about Geezer Butler
writing people
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people. Geddy Lee
writing practice hard
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
writing thinking different
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
writing first-love firsts
I love to write. It's my first love.
writing elderly years
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
writing able
I've never been able to write for stand-up. Elayne Boosler
writing attractive-things difficult
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. Edward St Aubyn
writing want favour
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.