Quotes about writing
writing ideas performing
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do. Harold Ramis
writing play good-movie
Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.
writing names challenges
When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.
writing stories next
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
writing
And I love writing. I've always loved writing. James Daly
writing hands film
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. James Broughton
writing issues flags
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
writing important
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
writing order emotion
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
writing thinking white
I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle. James Blunt
writing men people
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality. James Branch Cabell
writing fancy may
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. James Boswell
writing yield joy
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
writing stills slate
Writing is still on my slate. Jaleel White
writing thinking race
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin. Jamaica Kincaid
writing thinking who-i-am
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.
writing mets dismissal
My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.
writing editors rivers
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.
writing race people
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."
writing two justice
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
writing want
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.
writing islands wanted
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
writing successful careers
The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.
writing thinking way
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
writing people important
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?
writing sound novel
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
writing defiance
I write out of defiance.
writing white black
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."
writing simple reality
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you engage them in the reality of the borders they cultivate, the space in the garden they occupy at any moment, they like in particular this, or they like in particular that.
writing certain i-can
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.
writing crap ifs
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.
writing calling holy
Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.
writing fiction useless
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.