Quotes about writing
writing people purpose
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. John D. MacDonald
writing differences knowing
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk. John Cassavetes
writing realistic compare
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.
writing thinking personal-things
I think writing is a much more personal thing. Patrick Stump
writing singing
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
writing self scary-stories
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies) Patrick Carman
writing ears melody
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. Patrick Carney
writing reality tv-shows
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
writing digging harder
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging. Patrick Dennis
writing procrastination trying
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out. Paolo Bacigalupi
writing blow dust
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
writing thinking ideas
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it's almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject. Pankaj Mishra
writing two islam
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.
writing passion thinking
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.
writing vanity feelings
So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world and it has not been done before and only you can do it. Without these feelings, many writers would not be able to write anything at all.
writing ideas mindfulness
The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as being negative or harmful before they become a part of your being, before they become some kind of action like writing an angry letter to someone or speaking too strongly to someone.
writing fruit imagine
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. Paracelsus
writing passion piano
I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion. Ottessa Moshfegh
writing people style
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. Otis Blackwell
writing guitar play
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. Otis Rush
writing film novel
A great novel is worth one thousand films. Oscar Hijuelos
writing lines way
Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing. P. C. Cast
writing thinking modesty
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others. Paul McCartney
writing voice pads
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
writing thinking done
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
writing color important
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
writing ordinary songwriting
I don't work at being ordinary.
writing perception musician
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. Pattie Boyd
writing always-trying stuff
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing. Patton Oswalt
writing discipline trying
Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
writing want rooms
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
writing use deeper
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did. Peter Gay
writing diaries
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. Peter Greenaway