Quotes about writing
writing childhood choices
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write Laura Hillenbrand
writing california southern
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level. Larry Gelbart
writing make-happy ridiculous
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
writing thinking numbers
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
writing play two
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.
writing easy hopefully
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
writing differences personality
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. Larry Hagman
writing oddities hands
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. Kurt Tucholsky
writing guy focus
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. Kurt Sutter
writing
I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced. Liana Liberato
writing thinking funny-things
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person. Liev Schreiber
writing matter
Write like it matters, and it will. Libba Bray
writing doe useless
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen. Leslie Marmon Silko
writing long world
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
writing problem solve
A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. Friedrich Durrenmatt
writing voice people
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody. Harvey Fierstein
writing acting shows
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
writing unsaid great-power
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Louise Gluck
writing my-time
I spend most of my time writing. Louise Erdrich
writing people impossible
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
writing way i-can
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
writing trying crude
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
writing hard-work thinking
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. Gene Wilder
writing track laughing
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
writing used roof
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics Henry Rollins
writing desire talent
I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
writing opportunity long
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
writing years people
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
writing trying heartbreaking
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
writing views stuff
I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
writing simple thinking
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
writing preparation stage
With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
writing speak
I like how I write better than how I speak.