Quotes about writing
writing form mischief
Writing is a form of mischief. Stephen Sondheim
writing way feels
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
writing want score
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
writing
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
writing hands ideas
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
writing broadway causes
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
writing way hardest
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
writing space lines
You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
writing actors way
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
writing greed not-good-enough
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
writing paper consciousness
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
writing musical
Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.
writing restriction easier
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
writing reason
The only reason to write is from love.
writing hollywood comedy
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. Stephen Gaghan
writing office special
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. Stephen Greenblatt
writing listening-to-music
But I never listen to music while I'm writing.
writing dancing singing
Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig
writing thinking giving
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
writing successful dancing
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.
writing talking fiction
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some. Stephen Graham Jones
writing thinking long
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.
writing years ideas
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.
writing reality effort
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. Stephen Fry
writing home marijuana
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
writing would-be paper
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
writing years long
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
writing use paper
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
writing two mixtures
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
writing thinking verbs
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
writing play people
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. St. Vincent
writing sleep
To read without writing is to sleep. St. Jerome
writing night important
In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection. Sonia Rykiel