Quotes about writing
writing style done
Having done Spaced, I can't even remember it being that difficult on Spaced, but we know what the end's going to be like. We know why we're putting in this amount of work, or why a shot might be particularly tricky, because we know that what we do is create a whole package. It's the writing, the performances, and the style of camerawork, that's what we're working toward, and we're prepared for that. Simon Pegg
writing nuts shooting
The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.
writing effort leader
Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values. Simon Mainwaring
writing clothes america
All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash. Simon Doonan
writing vocabulary actors
It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act. Simon Helberg
writing interesting gossip
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject. Simon Hoggart
writing son stories
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. Rick Riordan
writing thinking would-be
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.
writing matter letting-you-go
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.
writing ideas able
I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.
writing thinking years
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. Richard Brautigan
writing heart men
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
writing talking next
Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from. Renata Adler
writing sleep phones
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
writing different should
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. Rem Koolhaas
writing interesting really-interesting
I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me. Timothy Omundson
writing want mail
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it. Tim Gunn
writing done pieces
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. Thomas Wolfe
writing mean thinking
I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting. Robert Altman
writing sells
Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells. Robert A. Heinlein
writing order two
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold
writing stealing easier
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
writing cutting important
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
writing way rooms
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
writing people diaries
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
writing done authority
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
writing hands ashamed
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
writing cry ifs
How can you write if you can't cry? Ring Lardner
writing emotional thinking
Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love. Ringo Starr
writing years would-be
I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
writing thinking people
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs. Tim O'Reilly
writing ideas might
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. Tim Roth
writing
The better the writing, the easier it gets.