Quotes about writing
writing pages
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. Sherman Alexie
writing years two
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
writing literature condescension-and
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
writing two three
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
writing hands washing
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
writing dark wicked
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it. Seth Grahame-Smith
writing media next-week
From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in. Seth MacFarlane
writing six-months littles
We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it. Seth Rogen
writing want roles
I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
writing computer
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. Sebastian Bach
writing training mountain
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. Sebastian Junger
writing style television
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. Scott Speedman
writing people kind
The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row. Scott Snyder
writing creative drug
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative. Scott Caan
writing paper pads
But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
writing film direct
Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't. Scott Eastwood
writing mean people
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it. Seth Godin
writing talking eggs
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
writing decision trying
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
writing boys novelists
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
writing waste wasting-time
Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
writing who-i-am singing
Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am. Raven-Symone
writing artist blink-182
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists Tom DeLonge
writing rocks guitar
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
writing people journalist
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Todor Zhivkov
writing character emotional
Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them. Todd Solondz
writing want stories
One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
writing awards academy-awards
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' Todd Phillips
writing nyu cheesy
I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.
writing people subjectivity
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration. Tino Sehgal
writing heart guy
I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it. Tobias Lindholm
writing middle hardest
Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.
writing men age
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. Tobias Smollett