Quotes about writing
writing thinking modesty
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others. Paul McCartney
writing voice pads
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
writing thinking done
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
writing color important
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
writing ordinary songwriting
I don't work at being ordinary.
writing perception musician
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. Pattie Boyd
writing always-trying stuff
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing. Patton Oswalt
writing discipline trying
Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
writing want rooms
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
writing use deeper
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did. Peter Gay
writing diaries
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. Peter Greenaway
writing paper pens
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
writing hands
A hand cannot write on itself.
writing majority internet
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
writing eye hands
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
writing poetry mind
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
writing criticism would-be
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
writing years wish
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. Paullina Simons
writing two knowing
I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
writing mind care
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
writing thinking memoir
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have. Pauline Kael
writing differences hands
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one. Paul Valery
writing numbers unexpected
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
writing boys men
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy! Paul Westerberg
writing men doe
I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did' Paul Weyrich
writing winning long
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history. Paul Watson
writing years acting
I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing. Mel Gibson
writing gigs scripts
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
writing stories brewing
I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.
writing people focus
There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.
writing dying
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before. Mel Brooks
writing thinking alzheimers
You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.
writing trying actors
Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.