Quotes about writing
writing play interesting
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it. Dashiell Hammett
writing secret songwriting
The secret of a great melody is a secret. Dave Brubeck
writing years two
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due. Darren Criss
writing comic jokes
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Dave Attell
writing voice parent
The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa... Write it down!
writing hands oysters
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead. Davy Crockett
writing time-zones brain
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone. Dawn French
writing past imagination
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
writing joy simply-love
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
writing joy sitting
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
writing chocolate television
I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
writing way deadline
On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way. Davy Rothbart
writing school night
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
writing thinking pieces
Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while. David Starkey
writing voice feelings
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
writing accomplishment important
I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in remaining visible in the online world. That said, I'm personally turned off by writers' blogs that do nothing but sing their own accomplishments.
writing thinking might
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.
writing thinking play
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.
writing opportunity creative
We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships. David Simon
writing plot-lines creative
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.
writing hands long
No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core. David Platt
writing play world
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me! David Lodge
writing easier
It is far easier to travel than to write about it. David Livingstone
writing knowing actors
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing. David Henrie
writing alive handball
Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive. David Hackworth
writing two world
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words. David Halberstam
writing play reason
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. David Hare
writing crafts dialogue
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
writing land house
The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards. David Hasselhoff
writing people stuff
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end. Curt Schilling
writing horror producers
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer. Curtis Hanson
writing people journalist
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
writing scene learning-experience
Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.