Quotes about writing
writing building dollhouses
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. Jill McCorkle
writing artist trying
Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry. Jesse McCartney
writing names columns
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. Jesse Jackson
writing satisfying
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. Jennifer Jason Leigh
writing people guy
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?' Jennifer Lawrence
writing successful play
Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions. Jeffrey Pfeffer
writing gone saws
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts. Jeffrey Rosen
writing voice louis-brandeis
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.
writing sister-in-law mind
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.
writing play mind
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. Jeff Daniels
writing actors want
Every actor just wants good writing.
writing play giving
Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
writing stories please
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. Jean M. Auel
writing influence i-can
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
writing want stories
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
writing ideas stories
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
writing historical fiction
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
writing way sometimes
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
writing giving sometimes
Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you a positive listing on your credit report - even though you haven't paid the full amount. Get this agreement in writing. Jean Chatzky
writing thinking play
I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first. Jean Kerr
writing research
To do the writing, I have to have time to do research. Jean-Jacques Annaud
writing growth stories
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. Jean Houston
writing
We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. James Buchan
writing scripts looks
I don't look at scripts. I just write them. James Cameron
writing ideas air
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
writing bears littles
I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live James Agee
writing artist facts
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?
writing thinking careers
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. James A. Michener
writing men young
If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
writing successful somewhere-else
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.
writing army nurse
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
writing firsts
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
writing men eight
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.