Quotes about writing
writing thinking people
I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines. Nico Tortorella
writing preference territorial
I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life. Nicki Minaj
writing thinking idols
I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.
writing people brilliant
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not. Nick Offerman
writing men laughing
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
writing tape letters
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. Nick Hornby
writing judging going-away
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?
writing thinking band
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. Matt Cameron
writing play theatre
The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain. Matt Damon
writing thinking ideas
If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.
writing trying stories
If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
writing eating
I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating. Mary MacLane
writing past men
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past. Mary McCarthy
writing ifs values
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. Marvin Harris
writing play piano
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody. Marvin Hamlisch
writing broadway berlin
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
writing simple honor
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence. Mark Twain
writing poet conscious
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.
writing editors austria
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
writing men done
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.
writing trying do-you-know
The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.
writing today-is-the-day wake-up
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me. Marian Keyes
writing proud feels
I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.
writing guy greek
When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny. Nicholas Stoller
writing people lucky
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
writing thinking direct
When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.
writing creative cracks
When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.
writing college focus
And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.
writing three sometimes
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. Nicholas Sparks
writing stories literature
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
writing fiction stories
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
writing tragedy stories
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
writing way dear
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.