Quotes about writing
writing direct
I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life. Curtis Hanson
writing
Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
writing unanswered-questions letters
If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back? Curtis Jackson
writing way my-way
In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.
writing people guy
I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am. Corey Taylor
writing ideas language
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. Confucius
writing people trying
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes. Daniel Tosh
writing rapper southern
Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.
writing people actors
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. Danai Gurira
writing topics shame
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.
writing years risk
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it. Dana Spiotta
writing want strange
I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.
writing laundry wells
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
writing breathing order
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.
writing character emotional
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.
writing technology trying
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
writing long novel
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
writing comedy spontaneity
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. Dane Cook
writing everyday littles
I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.
writing night funny-things
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
writing play ideas
I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade. Dallas Roberts
writing thinking years
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own. Damian Kulash
writing thinking littles
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." Curtis Sittenfeld
writing trying special
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating
writing people qualified
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
writing men thinking
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
writing confusion way
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
writing want three
You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass. Craig Brewer
writing choices important
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. David Chase
writing stuff sometimes
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. David Byrne
writing stuff agendas
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
writing
I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.
writing winning thinking
You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end. Dave Haywood