Quotes about writing
writing moments
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. Pema Chodron
writing needs band
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another. Phil Anselmo
writing thinking missing
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely. Phil Collins
writing scripts
I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...
writing music-is
I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.
writing taught force
Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words. Peter Serafinowicz
writing years fiction
I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling. Peter Robinson
writing giving satisfaction
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. Peter Porter
writing study forget
If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word. Peter O'Toole
writing important process
Music is an important part of my writing process. Peter James
writing tired years
You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors. Peter Jacobson
writing america wanted
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. Peter Jennings
writing play two
Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa. Peter Jackson
writing college san-francisco
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. Peter Coyote
writing wife trying
I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something. Peter Capaldi
writing cartoon bottles
I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.
writing past giving
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows. Peter Carey
writing selfishness here-and-there
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
writing talent teach
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
writing today novelists
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read. Pete Hamill
writing world heavy
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
writing discipline paper
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that. Pearl Cleage
writing defeat fear-not
But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
writing mind conscious
I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after. Pedro Almodovar
writing reality secret
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.
writing eight years
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale. Piers Anthony
writing would-be firsts
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
writing would-be fiction
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
writing views different
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
writing years wife
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
writing cutting rocks
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.
writing clothes needs
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
writing giving poet
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! Phyllis Bottome