Quotes about writing
writing voice people
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps. Billy Bob Thornton
writing helping kind
I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.
writing character film
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
writing thinking people
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
writing easy music-is
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. Bill Haley
writing wells accord
I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one." Bill Hader
writing want actors
I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.
writing generations asking
I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered. Bill James
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing fighting wife
I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. Art Buchwald
writing suffering failing
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.
writing thinking trying
Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best. Aziz Ansari
writing roles want
There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself. Ayelet Zurer
writing people tragedy
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. Ayelet Waldman
writing differences discipline
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
writing listening might
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself. Ayn Rand
writing eye office
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
writing people way
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
writing creative fundamentals
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
writing sin
It is a sin to write this.
writing lines stills
If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
writing focus mind
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
writing creative want
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
writing animal men
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.
writing thinking order
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done. Bertrand Russell
writing
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins. Benito Mussolini
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
writing men thinking
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. Benjamin Disraeli
writing discovery language
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
writing way subjects
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.