Quotes about writing
writing two would-be
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer. Ridley Scott
writing process visceral
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. Ridley Scott
writing ideas blade-runner
Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them. Ridley Scott
writing mind
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript Richard Steele
writing skills done
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it. Richard Stallman
writing justified software
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. Richard Stallman
writing names giving
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it. Richard Stallman
writing evil trying
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. Richard Stallman
writing technology law
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users. Richard Stallman
writing mean simple
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value". Richard Stallman
writing islands java
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. Richard Stallman
writing thinking age
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography. Richard Simmons
writing wrestling way
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
writing brain mind
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL. Richard Mitchell
writing house true-life
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician. Richard Grossman
writing unique levels
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam. Richard Grossman
writing plot fiction
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. Richard Hell
writing psychology firsts
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on. Richard Hell
writing thinking interesting
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened. Richard Hell
writing interesting consciousness
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting. Richard Hell
writing years people
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life. Richard Hell
writing artist people
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again. Richard Ashcroft
writing pieces kind
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. Richard Aldington
writing paint i-can
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. Richard Attenborough
writing bricks bricklaying
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. Red Smith
writing typewriters veins
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. Red Smith
writing educated civilized
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. Red Cloud
writing changed
I guess my writing has changed as my life has. Raymond Carver
writing trying world
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. Raymond Carver
writing judged
Writers will be judged by what they write. Raymond Carver
writing want poet
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate. Raymond Carver
writing has-beens been-in-love
You have to have been in love to write poetry. Raymond Carver
writing imagination littles
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. Raymond Carver