Quotes about writing
writing fiction common
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. David Leavitt
writing love-is trying
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. David Levithan
writing night guy
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap! David Letterman
writing two needs
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
writing air smell
Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations. David Gerrold
writing fighting men
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different. David Gemmell
writing different want
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. David Boreanaz
writing wanted
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. David Bowie
writing europe stuff
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.
writing numbers needs
If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others? David Jeremiah
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
writing two three
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.
writing thinking people
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
writing brain down-and
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. David Eagleman
writing lenses academic-work
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing down-and way
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success. David Benioff
writing character luxury
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
writing thinking way
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
writing vivid-imagination world
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
writing maintenance programming
All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code. Dave Thomas
writing thinking singing
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Dave Grohl
writing two suffering
I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays. David Wilcock
writing names voice
I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice. David Wenham
writing mail messages
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. David Wilkerson
writing want feels
If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not. David Whyte
writing doors goes-on
See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.
writing thinking house
When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there. David O. Russell
writing duty jury-duty
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
writing guy want
If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want. David Ogilvy
writing college advertising
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.