Quotes about writing
writing detectives reporters
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. David Coleman
writing moral filmmaker
I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian. David Cronenberg
writing worry hot
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
writing different difficult
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
writing keys people
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
writing college firsts
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.
writing encounters questions-and-answers
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.
writing thinking technique
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
writing thinking writing-poems
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. David Antin
writing remember imagine
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
writing self scripts
I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated. David Ayer
writing people stuff
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end. Curt Schilling
writing horror producers
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer. Curtis Hanson
writing people journalist
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
writing scene learning-experience
Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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.
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