Quotes about writing
writing people satire
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. Dawn Powell
writing way enough
If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that. David Twohy
writing cutting thinking
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.
writing cartoon my-time
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. David Remnick
writing practice wish
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.
writing remember hard
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
writing character play
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going. David Henry Hwang
writing love-is years
I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion. David Icke
writing starting-over interesting
If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work. Dean Koontz
writing analysis language
Grammar is the analysis of language. Edgar Allan Poe
writing creative intuition
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes...
writing abandonment conceit
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
writing thoughtful reality
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
writing insightful stories
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
writing thinking matter
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you. Eleanor Holmes Norton
writing thinking folks
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. Elbert Hubbard
writing helping-others men
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.
writing men views
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well. Eleanor Roosevelt
writing want good-times
I want to study, to write to live and have a good time. Ehud Barak
writing order paper
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult. Edsger Dijkstra
writing discovery mind
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
writing annoyed betrayed
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me. Eduardo Galeano
writing police musical
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.' Edward Abbey
writing records may
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
writing trying may
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
writing facts fidelity
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
writing selective
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
writing people challenges
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
writing mean volcanoes
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
writing people singing
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. Eddie Van Halen
writing
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
writing character mind
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. Atom Egoyan
writing play voice
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.