Quotes about writing
writing simple language-words
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. George Eliot
writing italian culture
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Geoffrey Nunberg
writing crafts may
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
writing space astronaut
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
writing years promise
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
writing laughing trying
I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say. Geoffrey Rush
writing men space
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. Geoffrey Chaucer
writing needs schedules
As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule, Gary Ross
writing thinking artist
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California. Gary Numan
writing voice different
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent. Gary Shteyngart
writing mean personality
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.
writing heart ifs
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
writing way right-now
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.
writing people subway
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
writing breathe immigrants
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.
writing play acting
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. Gary Oldman
writing worry long
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change. Gabriel Iglesias
writing thinking years
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' Gabriel Garcia Marquez
writing want fame
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
writing moments frightened
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
writing important young-writers
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
writing transparent visible
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
writing stories levitation
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
writing journalist
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
writing light law
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
writing two lakes
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como. Franz Liszt
writing people wish
I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that. Fred Armisen
writing creative boxes
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. Frank Iero
writing passion people
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me. Francoise Sagan
writing editors accepted
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
writing balance ifs
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
writing decision finding-yourself
When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
writing ideas shadow
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.