Quotes about writing
writing reviews interest
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me. Jonathan Gold
writing artist play
I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience. Jonathan Groff
writing character thinking
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me. Jonathan Franzen
writing thinking shapes
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
writing nonfiction enjoy
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
writing spectators reader
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
writing interesting verbs
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
writing fiction connections
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
writing decision scary
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.
writing errors wales
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. Jonathan Dimbleby
writing sometimes
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future. Jonathan Brandis
writing careers actors
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.
writing character math
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry. Jonathan Evison
writing humans human-beings
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? Jonathan Coe
writing ideas two
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
writing wife littles
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
writing impact mad
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
writing political intimate
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
writing trying dangerous
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. Jonathan Carroll
writing wife mind
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
writing damn bites
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
writing thinking today
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
writing long stories
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
writing alive today
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service. Jonathan Alter
writing thinking pockets
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today. Jonas Mekas
writing writing-poetry
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
writing just-friends may
No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me Jonathan Ames
writing landscape action
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
writing
To write about a place, you have to live there.
writing thinking long
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
writing firsts sides
I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first. Jon Secada
writing taught-us monkeys
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live. Jonah Lehrer
writing heart play
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.' Jonah Hill