Quotes about writing
writing responsibility years
When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details. Demian Bichir
writing rocks together
My all time favorite band is Paramore and she's basically one of the reasons I was inspired... umm, well Hayley Williams from Paramore was one of the basic reasons I wanted to go rock. I saw the band live and they're great together and they write incredible music and also I like a lot of older bands. I like Motley Crue a lot and who else, I've got a lot of favorite bands but those are pretty much the main ones. Demi Lovato
writing goal shooting
My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them. Demetri Martin
writing tv-shows long
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Demetri Martin
writing thinking laughing
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Demetri Martin
writing interesting people
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. Demetri Martin
writing night thinking
I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone. Demetri Martin
writing hours week
When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. Dean Koontz
writing talking desire
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. Dean Koontz
writing thinking people
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. Dean Koontz
writing pages revising
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. Dean Koontz
writing ideas literature
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. Dean Koontz
writing plot pasta
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. Dean Koontz
writing names use
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. Dean Koontz
writing artist advice
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel. Dean Koontz
writing publicity sometimes
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay. Dean Koontz
writing might next
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing. Dean Koontz
writing artist guy
I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff. Daniel H. Wilson
writing men tales
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. Daniel Handler
writing being-the-best
I write storys to entertain not to be the best Daniel Handler
writing math epic
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet. Daniel Handler
writing dying form
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. Daniel Handler
writing people ifs
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. Daniel Handler
writing next dies
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read. Daniel Handler
writing firsts novel
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. Daniel Handler
writing thinking eight
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either." Daniel Handler
writing media race
The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate. Dana Perino
writing thinking letters
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. Dana Gioia
writing ideas actors
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more. Dan Stevens
writing mean brain
I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music. Dan Auerbach
writing
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone. Dan Auerbach
writing mind knows
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside. Dan Auerbach
writing car motorcycle
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write. Dan Aykroyd