Quotes about writing
writing actors television
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television. Denis Leary
writing directors screenplays
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that. Deepa Mehta
writing thinking somewhere-else
Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you really feel. Don't try to change it. Honor it: "This is how I feel." Express it, and then it's not suppressed and stored somewhere in your liver or somewhere else.
writing holy stills
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually. Deborah Eisenberg
writing horror triviality
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
writing fiction done
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
writing reality earthquakes
You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.
writing years people
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire. Deborah Harkness
writing feels
I write about the things I feel strongly about. Dido Armstrong
writing people able
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. Dick Cavett
writing thinking easy
I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.
writing mean thinking
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does. Diana Krall
writing people different
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different. Diana Gabaldon
writing seems
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. Dennis Lehane
writing dark two
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.
writing bars use
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
writing simple secret
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.
writing people want
It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
writing white house
The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done. Dennis Miller
writing political stories
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. Denise Mina
writing world might
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. Edward Everett Hale
writing world great-inventions
Writing is the great invention of the world. Abraham Lincoln
writing names knowing
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. William Shakespeare
writing school home
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. Amanda Hocking
writing editors agents
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent. Joseph Joubert
writing ifs i-can
I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can. Alexis Bledel
writing years challenges
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. Alexei Sayle
writing people belief
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
writing easy sitcom
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing imagine wells
I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person. Barbara Pym
writing kind pleasure
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
writing way
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing. Barbara Mertz