Quotes about writing
writing cutting ideas
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections. David Bowie
writing league trying
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
writing play numbers
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
writing names bigs
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. Dave Mustaine
writing people looks
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
writing comfort expenses
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." Dave Ramsey
writing get-better dialogue
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue. David Nicholls
writing made situation
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
writing thinking somewhere-else
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
writing sleepovers wasting-time
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
writing thinking hands
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
writing people abstract
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
writing years topics
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic. David Javerbaum
writing giving interesting
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. David Ives
writing theatre deals
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
writing play symphony
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
writing thinking talking
Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates writing as someone telling what he thinks or what he does - in his own words. His own words will always be better than your words, even if you are the most elegant stylist in the land. William Zinsser
writing stories wells
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well. Aharon Appelfeld
writing metaphor catastrophe
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
writing israel people
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
writing thinking six
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
writing two midnight
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. Abdul Kalam
writing feelings happens
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences. Aaron Carter
writing world great-inventions
Writing is the great invention of the world. Abraham Lincoln
writing names knowing
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. William Shakespeare
writing school home
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. Amanda Hocking
writing past order
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States. Edward Said
writing phones government
Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime. Edward Snowden
writing self equal
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.
writing brilliant
Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him. Bruce Vilanch
writing screens
I do a lot of screen re-writing.
writing film notes
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films. Bruce Bennett
writing stories may
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work. Bruce Chatwin