Quotes about writing
writing
I write, but I also act. Eric Bogosian
writing creative television
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. Eric Bana
writing giving important
Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All. Ennio Morricone
writing score used
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry. Ennio Morricone
writing diaries
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell
writing careers people
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write. James Franco
writing tasmania should
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania. James Cook
writing worst
Writing is the worst part of being a writer. James Atlas
writing adventure mean
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging. James Anthony Froude
writing tv-shows long
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope its something that can have a long life. Jake Kasdan
writing wind flying
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. Jacques Lacan
writing amusement rich
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. Frederick Marryat
writing clothes people
Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes. George Fetherling
writing people prejudice
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business. George Gissing
writing men broken
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it? George Gissing
writing blue three
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired. George Gershwin
writing symphony people
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. George Gershwin
writing fighting boys
There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about. Not to see on television, but to read about. Let the writers take over. George Foreman
writing paid bloggers
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. Jon Ronson
writing people trying
Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times. Jon Ronson
writing trying stories
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. Jon Ronson
writing trying mystery
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. Jon Ronson
writing rocks dancing
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition. Jon Landau
writing secret fantasy
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. Jon Krakauer
writing views symphony
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies.. Jon Krakauer
writing practice mindfulness
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn
writing airplane meditation
I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go. Jon Foreman
writing hands names
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. Johnny Winter
writing emotional keys
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes
writing community fickle
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. Johnny Weir
writing years challenges
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year. John Zorn
writing trying pieces
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way John Zorn
writing thinking creative
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. John Zorn