Quotes about writing
writing pigs guy
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. John Sayles
writing people littles
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.
writing average two
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
writing next-day roger
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
writing thinking stories
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
writing paper four
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. John Philip Sousa
writing character past
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. John Phillips
writing mirrors self
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news. John Pilger
writing preacher knows
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. John Piper
writing thinking funny-things
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person. Liev Schreiber
writing matter
Write like it matters, and it will. Libba Bray
writing doe useless
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen. Leslie Marmon Silko
writing long world
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
writing problem solve
A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. Friedrich Durrenmatt
writing amusement rich
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. Frederick Marryat
writing clothes people
Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes. George Fetherling
writing people prejudice
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business. George Gissing
writing men broken
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?
writing blue three
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired. George Gershwin
writing symphony people
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
writing fighting boys
There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about. Not to see on television, but to read about. Let the writers take over. George Foreman
writing paid bloggers
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. Jon Ronson
writing people trying
Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.
writing trying stories
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
writing trying mystery
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
writing rocks dancing
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition. Jon Landau
writing secret fantasy
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. Jon Krakauer
writing views symphony
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..
writing practice mindfulness
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn
writing airplane meditation
I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go. Jon Foreman
writing hands names
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. Johnny Winter
writing emotional keys
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes
writing community fickle
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. Johnny Weir