Quotes about writing
writing eye adults
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye. Elizabeth Bowen
writing boys pigs
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile ...
writing past wish
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
writing paper littles
Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
writing literature firsts
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
writing character mistress
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.
writing said turns
What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.
writing names
Everything that I write will be signed with my name. Elinor Glyn
writing mail
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail. Eliot Spitzer
writing attention may
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead Elfriede Jelinek
writing feelings want
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
writing worry feelings
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing
writing character voice
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character. Dito Montiel
writing thinking ideas
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. Dizzy Gillespie
writing cuz scripts
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula. Dirk Benedict
writing college acting
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
writing parent becoming
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
writing wife done
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
writing kissing peers
I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have. Dionne Warwick
writing together letters
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. David Bowie
writing cutting ideas
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.
writing league trying
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
writing play numbers
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
writing names bigs
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. Dave Mustaine
writing people looks
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
writing comfort expenses
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." Dave Ramsey
writing get-better dialogue
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue. David Nicholls
writing made situation
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
writing thinking somewhere-else
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
writing sleepovers wasting-time
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
writing thinking hands
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
writing people abstract
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
writing years topics
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic. David Javerbaum