Quotes about writing
writing goal produce
I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal. Jonah Hill
writing acting actors
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
writing careers want
I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.
writing editors scary
By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior. Jonah Goldberg
writing critics ifs
If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.
writing hot stones
What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages. Jon Stewart
writing psychology degrees
The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.
writing thinking next-day
When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."
writing jigsaw-puzzles class
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. Jon Postel
writing editors remember
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. Joyce Carol Oates
writing silence use
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
writing years ideas
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
writing voice relaxation
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
writing numbers ideas
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
writing dark challenges
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
writing age twenties
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.
writing letters hours
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
writing might
My writing is full of lives I might have led.
writing goal wasting-time
Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.
writing mystery appeals
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.
writing grandmother typewriters
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
writing lucky ifs
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
writing opportunity stories
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
writing voice emotion
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.
writing mountain impossible
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. John le Carre
writing hands literature
I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
writing thinking hands
Without a pen in my hand I can't think.
writing principles stories
It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.
writing spy desperate
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.
writing work-out imagination
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
writing two pages
When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.
writing dust pie
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
writing cat stories
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.