Quotes about writing
writing actors television
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. Barry Levinson
writing thinking two
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had. Barry Hannah
writing kind flaws
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
writing done too-much
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
writing golf artist
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write. Barbara Boxer
writing discipline shapes
To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.' Barbara Bush
writing worry people
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
writing age faces
I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face. Arthur Smith
writing artist misunderstood
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks. Artie Shaw
writing men genius
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. Arthur Schopenhauer
writing style firsts
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
writing two needs
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
writing doe importance
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
writing use common
One should use common words to say uncommon things
writing opposites giving
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
writing interesting novelists
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
writing sake subjects
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
writing order firsts
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. Antonio Machado
writing soul sin
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
writing piano play
I play the piano and write music. Anwar Robinson
writing mind fiction
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story. Antonya Nelson
writing thinking years
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days. Anurag Kashyap
writing suggestions opinion
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work. Antonin Scalia
writing thinking self
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand. Bruce Lee
writing happens
I only write about what I do, what happens to me. Brownie McGhee
writing soldier calendars
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars. Brooke Burke
writing blow mind
It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write. Brittany Murphy
writing bridges lucky
Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it. Brian Van Holt
writing discovery long
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold. Edwidge Danticat
writing interesting people
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
writing dark hair
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.
writing practice stressful
The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
writing melancholy
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.