Quotes about writing
writing
I write constantly about everything. Tom Sturridge
writing frustration small-numbers
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. Tom Stoppard
writing artist oxygen
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
writing editing good-things
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
writing bites
can only write about what bites you.
writing play cooking
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
writing flow facts
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
writing play way
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
writing thinking play
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
writing play preparation
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
writing intellectual
I write out of my intellectual experience.
writing editing whales
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
writing ideas two
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.
writing one-love social
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
writing long half
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
writing play way
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
writing way fiction
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
writing library needs
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
writing wish way
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. Tom Paulin
writing brain relax
There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something. Tom Odell
writing perfect people
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel. Tom Perrotta
writing expression levels
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
writing years two
The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.
writing talking ideas
I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something. Tom Green
writing doing-you bunch
I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.
writing poetry matter
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me. Tom Glazer
writing character suspense
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. Tom Clancy
writing people way
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
writing golf play
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
writing hard-work kissing
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.
writing simple trying
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
writing waiting pieces
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. Toby Young
writing years political
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.