Quotes about writing
writing waiting merit
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. Elia Kazan
writing people design
You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach. Eli Roth
writing self creative
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
writing kind one-thing-at-a-time
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
writing thinking careers
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
writing opportunity men
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. B. C. Forbes
writing men years
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
writing able talent
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally. Ashanti
writing creating albums
When I'm writing my album, it's totally my world. Even though it's myself and another producer creating the project, Conceptually it's more under my power and on my own terms. At the same time, it's a different type of pressure because I'm ultimately speaking, I'm solely responsible for the end result.
writing imagine careful
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. Asghar Farhadi
writing thinking want
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
writing thinking world
Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.
writing weather track
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail. Arthur Hailey
writing people able
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
writing grandchildren grandparent
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. Arthur Hertzberg
writing thinking laughing
Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh. Armando Iannucci
writing thinking political
I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.
writing years cities
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world. Armistead Maupin
writing rhyme
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that. Channing Tatum
writing wife people
I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.
writing caring thoughtful
I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.
writing i-can ifs
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed. Alanis Morissette
writing expression piano
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
writing people records
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!
writing writing-music enjoy
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
writing home dresses
There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
writing thinking mind
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. Blaise Pascal
writing mathematical please
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
writing desire wish
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
writing style natural
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
writing winning thinking
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do. Billy Boyd
writing sake want
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. Billie Joe Armstrong
writing thinking directors
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. Billy Bob Thornton