Quotes about writing
writing land ideas
I know my political ideas affect what I write, but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them. James Q. Wilson
writing army men
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington
writing unique inheritance
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale. James Gunn
writing play people
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net. James Gray
writing people knows
In general, markets know more than the people who write about them. James Grant
writing order years
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot. James Fenton
writing faces problem
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
writing iowa creative
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.
writing reputation publishers
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. Laurence J. Peter
writing next firsts
I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next. Laurence Sterne
writing firsts almighty-god
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
writing thinking talking
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
writing
I had been writing professionally since 1988 Laura Hillenbrand
writing phones information
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
writing childhood choices
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write
writing california southern
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level. Larry Gelbart
writing make-happy ridiculous
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
writing thinking numbers
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
writing play two
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.
writing easy hopefully
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
writing differences personality
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. Larry Hagman
writing oddities hands
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. Kurt Tucholsky
writing guy focus
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. Kurt Sutter
writing
I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced. Liana Liberato
writing cutting dark
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows. Rajneesh
writing men rights
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own. Sojourner Truth
writing thinking
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time. Sofia Coppola
writing mind matter
Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times. Smokey Robinson
writing going-away accents
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. Sofia Vergara
writing men difficulty
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. Socrates
writing forever
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.
writing acceptance past
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done. Michelle Shocked
writing vcr house
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since. Michelle Rodriguez