Quotes about writing
writing people pages
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.' Candice Accola
writing should-have years
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.' Candace Bushnell
writing want i-can
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.
writing people who-you-know
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
writing novel paid
For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.
writing thinking helpful
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
writing adults looking-forward
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
writing government decision
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. Byron White
writing purple littles
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that. Buzz Bissinger
writing home views
What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars? Buzz Aldrin
writing people remember
Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. Burt Bacharach
writing storytelling produce
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me. Bryan Cranston
writing careers film
It certainly made a film writing career for me. Buck Henry
writing sixteen outkast
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it. Bubba Sparxxx
writing thinking facts
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically. James Herriot
writing views two
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology. James Hillman
writing leopards use
Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. James Dickey
writing dresses wells
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
writing realizing love-poetry
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
writing thinking giving
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant. James Ellroy
writing air data
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
writing thinking people
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.
writing thinking novel
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.
writing careers play
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
writing thinking actors
It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it. Jason Gann
writing years deadline
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. Jason Isbell
writing class interesting
There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. Jarvis Cocker
writing brain information
If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there? Jaron Lanier
writing thinking writing-and-thinking
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
writing thinking rapper
I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper. Kool Keith
writing men sides
I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.
writing records sexiest
I write the most sexiest records out.
writing people focus
I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest. Kip Moore