Quotes about writ
writing thinking design
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Wes Anderson
writing crime resorts
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. Wally Amos
writing letters nasty
If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read. Walt Kelly
writing want able
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write. Wally Lamb
writing opportunity thinking
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
writing way different
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
writing thinking needs
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
writing water levels
however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own. Vita Sackville-West
writing lasts occupation
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
writing tools tribes
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work. Walt Whitman
writing life-is heartbeat
By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.
writing drug use
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it. Saul Bellow
writing heart long
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
writing trying looks
The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context. Sarah Gadon
writing meditation calm
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation. Sandra Cisneros
writing voice destruction
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Roland Barthes
writing practice space
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.
writing frustration skulls
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. Rod Serling
writing men thinking
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
writing thinking justice
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business. Robin McKinley
writing artist editors
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. William Faulkner
writing thinking play
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. Wole Soyinka
writing important gestation
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
writing down-and lessons
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
writing bad-writing firsts
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. Will Shetterly
writing creativity academia
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. Will Self
writing thinking opposites
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy. Zadie Smith
writing healthy trying
My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don’t count a damn calorie. But when I’m really trying to eat healthy, I write everything down. It really holds me accountable and puts me on a healthier path. Tyra Banks
writing creativity order
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative. Twyla Tharp
writing order fool
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer. William H. Gass
writing reason
Getting even is one reason for writing.
writing editors habit
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
writing expression movement
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.