Quotes about writing
writing thinking giving
I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity. Chuck Palahniuk
writing worry focus
What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.
writing thinking people
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something. Chuck Klosterman
writing law firsts
If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.
writing thinking ideas
I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
writing interesting people
The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.
writing next-day use
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
writing different prisms
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
writing ideas trying
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.
writing people like-you
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions. Chuck Berry
writing
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
writing rock-and-roll play
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
writing technology reality
The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. Chuck D.
writing emotional combination
Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience. Christopher Nolan
writing turns alcoholics
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write. Christopher Plummer
writing thinking culture
I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing. Christopher Reeve
writing
Once we choose hope, everything is possible.
writing most-amazing tarantino
I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue. Christopher Walken
writing cooking might
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.
writing strive lyrical
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf Christopher Paolini
writing thinking self
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
writing character people
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.
writing boys mind
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind. Christopher McQuarrie
writing too-much way
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
writing way watches
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
writing years novelists
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
writing diaries knows
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Christopher Morley
writing circles two
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me? Christopher Moore
writing world sometimes
I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world. Ansel Elgort
writing brain let-it-go
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain. Annie Proulx
writing thinking space
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
writing quality etc
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is. Ansel Adams
writing practice groups
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more. Anne Archer