Quotes about writing
writing play mind
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen. Neil Simon
writing hands may
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.
writing knives play
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.
writing thinking obligation
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.
writing comedian actors
I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
writing like-being-alone meditation
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.
writing science occupation
From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. Marcus Aurelius
writing quality abandonment
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. Marco Arment
writing guitar issues
I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting. Marc Maron
writing opportunity want
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
writing thinking evolve
I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.
writing comedy moments
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
writing television way
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write. Marc Cherry
writing excited something-new
I'm excited and terrified to write something new.
writing television way
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written. Marc Guggenheim
writing difficult-times difficult
When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.
writing thinking guy
The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.
writing lines want
On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page. Marc Forster
writing years people
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. Marc Andreessen
writing people details
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. Rose Tremain
writing stuff firsts
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
writing understanding world
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
writing trying short-story
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables. Sandra Cisneros
writing heart thinking
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
writing giving people
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
writing little-things intrigued
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
writing fiction helping
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
writing good-friend language
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
writing stories littles
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.
writing house maps
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.
writing different
Write about what makes you different.
writing giving latina
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
writing
I began writing as an experimental writer.