Quotes about writing
writing thinking trying
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them. Ed Sheeran
writing gigs tunes
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
writing always-trying different
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein. Earl King
writing satire
I like to write a lot of satire.
writing gymnastics
Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
writing trying pages
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen. Elizabeth Kostova
writing men years
If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. Elizabeth Meriwether
writing feelings mischievous
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
writing skeletons elements
You cant improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of. Eliza Coupe
writing one-day three
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
writing kissing romantic-love
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
writing seems courses
Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.
writing scope length
The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write. Edward M. Lerner
writing faithful way
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. Edmund White
writing two say-anything
Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.
writing forgotten draws
In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.
writing games challenges
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be
writing america desire
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
writing fetus
Writing is like carrying a fetus. Edna O'Brien
writing heart cutting
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
writing thieves littles
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
writing climbing mountain
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Edna Ferber
writing thinking order
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
writing thinking order
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.
writing years done
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.
writing reflection tools
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
writing climbing interesting
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
writing personality musical
I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities. Edgar Meyer
writing new-experiences self
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. Edgar Winter
writing thinking tv-shows
Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together. Edgar Wright
writing rotten stories
I could write stories just as rotten. Edgar Rice Burroughs
writing poverty
I write to escape ... to escape poverty.
writing successful interesting
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.