Quotes about writing
writing acting balance
I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing. Steven Bauer
writing use
Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it. Steven Brust
writing looks rooms
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like. Steven Amsterdam
writing hockey ice
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. Steven Pinker
writing people creative
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.
writing nerd research
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period. Susan Holloway Scott
writing thinking ghost-stories
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape. Susan Hill
writing play voice
You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things. Summer Glau
writing structure money-and-power
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. Sun Ra
writing air fans
I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan. Summer Sanders
writing emotional phones
I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article. Sue Gardner
writing needs television
I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron. Sue Townsend
writing would-be 1960s
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
writing focus risk
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks. Sue Grafton
writing giving get-better
Give yourself time to get better.
writing journey giving
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
writing sometimes claims
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
writing firsts novel
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
writing years careers
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
writing eye self
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.
writing two brain
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
writing taste pomegranates
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. Sue Monk Kidd
writing mail letters
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
writing thinking people
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
writing feelings keepers
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
writing heart talking
I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
writing trying want
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
writing stories who-we-are
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
writing long people
I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies. Steven Zaillian
writing fantasy persons
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write Stevie Nicks
writing belief conviction
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me. Robert Browning
writing artist people
When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records. Rico Love
writing enough good-enough
I never thought I was good enough actually to write. Ricky Schroder