Quotes about writing
writing decision waiting
Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission. Sam Shepard
writing play want
Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
writing voice problem
I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.
writing character son
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.
writing typewriters odds
When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.
writing play firsts
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.
writing thinking useless
I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
writing interesting crafts
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.
writing light play
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
writing acting division
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
writing constitution madison
There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here. Rush Limbaugh
writing acting watches
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.
writing sublime important
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. Thomas Lynch
writing people difficult
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
writing wind tree
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. Thomas Merton
writing journal
My best writing has always been in journals.
writing helping-others men
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.
writing one-day authenticity
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day? Thomas Carlyle
writing men discovery
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
writing labor idleness
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
writing ideas done
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. Tony Judt
writing play doe
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. Tony Kushner
writing play political
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'
writing artist creepy
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
writing bars balls
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
writing play people
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
writing thinking your-side
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
writing people political
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
writing back-to-work torture
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
writing want
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. Tony Earley
writing feelings knows
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling. Tommy Lee
writing average records
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
writing listening playing-music
It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.