Quotes about writing
writing sake
I am never going to write for the sake of writing. Emma Lazarus
writing want produce
I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go. Emmanuel Lewis
writing different stories
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. Emma Thompson
writing years may
It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
writing interesting creative
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
writing matter desks
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
writing play want
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. Emma Watson
writing people needs
I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.
writing sound sentences
I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right. John McPhee
writing order suspension
Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life
writing nightmare kind
A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing.
writing
I'd much prefer to write more quickly. John McGahern
writing discovery process
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
writing giving decision
At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.
writing school play
When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising. John McLaughlin
writing mature enough
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything. John Mellencamp
writing goal buckets
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. Lynda Barry
writing names missing
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
writing fate order
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.
writing may want
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. Lyndon B. Johnson
writing waiting acting
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. Lukas Haas
writing years lifetime
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. Lukas Foss
writing creative letters
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
writing way felt
Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. Luke Evans
writing less-is-more
Less is more. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
writing character long
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin. Lucas Neff
writing ideas waiting
Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
writing brain language
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. Louise Leakey
writing today embarrassed
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. Louise Mensch
writing law serious
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
writing thinking novel
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. Louise Penny
writing jealous self
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
writing fake degrees
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake. Louis Dudek