Quotes about writing
writing thinking skills
Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing. John Cleese
writing past wells
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
writing mind actors
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
writing circles important
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.
writing actors performers
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.
writing laughing people
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
writing reality people
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.
writing creativity way
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
writing thinking years
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!
writing people happens
I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.
writing years class
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.
writing limits
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. M. Scott Peck
writing opportunity world
I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak. Lurlene McDaniel
writing people trying
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.' Lupe Fiasco
writing long rejection
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Louise Brown
writing battle fiction
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. John Cheever
writing stories kind
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
writing blake make-sense
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
writing kissing done
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
writing nuclear roles
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
writing needs make-sense
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
writing ego promise
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
writing kissing reader
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
writing years stressed
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers. John Bolton
writing appreciate television
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
writing past stories
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel. John Boyne
writing ideas want
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. John Amos
writing giving long
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. Max Lucado
writing people week
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.
writing exercise interesting
All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.
writing kind backwards
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.
writing parent lord
I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.
writing people remember
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.