Quotes about writing
writing rocks play
Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with. Quentin Tarantino
writing thinking way
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
writing want nails
I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or when I'm writing it or when I'm making it, because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.
writing pages made
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.
writing trying genre
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
writing stuff filmmaker
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
writing feet people
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.
writing people screenplays
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
writing heart language
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi
writing addiction
I have a writing addiction. Prince
writing classic old-days
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! Prince Philip
writing letters classic
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?
writing college stories
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. Polly Adler
writing civilization glory
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read. Pliny the Elder
writing conscious
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. Pico Iyer
writing alive way
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing important alive
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing anomalies letters
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
writing parent anomalies
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
writing thinking want
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want Mike Gatting
writing musical atmosphere
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. Midge Ure
writing thinking care
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. Mickey Kaus
writing thinking development
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
writing guitar years
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way. Mick Ralphs
writing stuff way
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing stuff will be swirling around in my head, and sometimes I'll see a new way into the material. Nathaniel Philbrick
writing color people
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. Naveen Andrews
writing ideas giving-money
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive. Naveen Jain
writing warrior whatever-it-takes
Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't. Natsuki Takaya
writing ivy romance
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Nathaniel Hawthorne
writing style disappear
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
writing written seems
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw. Thomas Aquinas
writing past people
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
writing needs fans
When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen. Thom Yorke