Quotes about writing
writing mystery
I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery. Cecelia Ahern
writing night space
I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
writing player men
It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that. Carrie Coon
writing thinking epic
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking. Carrie Vaughn
writing connections kind
I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. Carrie Brownstein
writing doe sometimes
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
writing people playing-music
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.
writing playing-music tire
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.
writing cliche salvation
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
writing white wife
I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves. Carrie Fisher
writing trying may
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
writing differences realizing
Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day. Carrie Underwood
writing people mets
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life. Carl Reiner
writing humor improvisation
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
writing found shocked
When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.
writing ideas creating
Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.
writing blood games
I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole. Bill Burr
writing ideas people
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern. Bill Bryson
writing enjoy communicate
I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting. Bethenny Frankel
writing thinking female
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably. Bette Davis
writing skills confusion
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
writing thinking punctuation-marks
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
writing humanity literature
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. Bernard Berenson
writing years nuclear
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed
writing indulge-in people
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me. Ashton Kutcher
writing ideas enough
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. Arnold Schoenberg
writing proud way
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
writing cold ifs
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. Antonia Fraser
writing bedtime prison
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
writing self-confidence maine
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
writing ideas tomorrow
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
writing thinking order
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
writing long stories
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form. Anthony Swofford