Quotes about writing
writing instinct made
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline. Steve Erickson
writing long different
I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios. Steve Antin
writing heaven novel
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. Stephen Collins
writing different three
Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit. Stephen Daldry
writing
Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought. Stephen Covey
writing lizzy great-writers
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. Vanessa Marano
writing talking land
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city. Vannevar Bush
writing machines stuff
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. Vanilla Ice
writing actors making-money
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing. Val Guest
writing stories novelists
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. V. S. Pritchett
writing suicidal home
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
writing mind landscape
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
writing details stories
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
writing government expression
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do. Vaclav Klaus
writing challenges friendly
If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller. Val Kilmer
writing responsibility world
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them. Vaclav Havel
writing people watches
It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying. Uzo Aduba
writing brain paper
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. Utada Hikaru
writing wish would-be
I wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure. V. S. Naipaul
writing support
Writing has to support itself.
writing littles narrative
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
writing oppression ifs
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
writing ideas intuition
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
writing documentation details
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
writing judging looks
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
writing hysteria comedy
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
writing two pieces
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
writing life-is whatever-happens
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about. Tucker Max
writing talking laughing
I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.
writing sweat two
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal. Suzan-Lori Parks
writing play people
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.
writing stories forget
Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids. Suzanne Brockmann
writing vacation hands
Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.