Quotes about writing
writing tvs periods
I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself. Brie Larson
writing feelings paper
All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong Brigham Young
writing peers found
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better. Brian P. Cleary
writing down-and matter
When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it down and then I know, you know... I'll read it and I'll write it down on my balls. Right here. Right here on the back of my balls is where I'll write it. On the very back. I'll just lift them and write it nicely. Brian Posehn
writing trying comedy
If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody. Brendan O'Carroll
writing positivity stories
If we own the story then we can write the ending.
writing stories personal-responsibility
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
writing stories deny
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
writing thinking islam
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is Brad Thor
writing issues important
I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue
writing want actors
Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you. Bradley Whitford
writing guy focus
I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.
writing dialogue almodovar
I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes. Bonnie Wright
writing tv-shows tvs
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all. Bonnie McKee
writing care kind
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!
writing artist shoes
When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.
writing
When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.
writing littles different
I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.
writing trying get-better
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician. Bonnie Jo Campbell
writing four way
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.
writing unhappy matter
I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.
writing luck ifs
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
writing animal stories
Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.
writing self my-own
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.
writing skills america
I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.
writing creating numbers
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.
writing married beats
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
writing years truth-is
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.
writing math thinking
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
writing thinking specificity
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
writing character men
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
writing people needs
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly