Quotes about writing
writing needs actors
All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with. Cillian Murphy
writing people tabloids
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.
writing trying strings
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. Chuck Mangione
writing people listening
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
writing teeth nails
Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. Alfred Doblin
writing loss reality
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future. Alfred Bester
writing giving wake-up
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock
writing people want
If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself. Andrew Garfield
writing disability fingers
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. Andrew Greeley
writing work-out friendly
It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it. Amy Sherman-Palladino
writing mind trying
I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
writing people easy
This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
writing actors want
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
writing feet different
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. Amy Sedaris
writing self identity
I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me. Amy Tan
writing fiction lessons
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
writing ideas looks
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
writing thinking spirit
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.
writing rewards fiction
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
writing simple ideas
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
writing thinking luxury
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
writing seven novel
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
writing thinking form
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
writing giving stories
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
writing taught seems
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. Amin Maalouf
writing people bathroom
I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom. Amit Bhatia
writing names desire
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. Anthony Burgess
writing
The writer's life seethes within but not without.
writing names littles
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.
writing fearless clockwork
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
writing justice lenses
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice. Anthony Bourdain
writing years car
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
writing treason
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.