Quotes about writ
writing battle fiction
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. John Cheever
writing stories kind
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
writing blake make-sense
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
writing kissing done
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
writing nuclear roles
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
writing needs make-sense
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
writing ego promise
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
writing kissing reader
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
writing years stressed
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers. John Bolton
writing appreciate television
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
writing past stories
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel. John Boyne
writing ideas want
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. John Amos
writing dna scientist
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code). Eric Lander
writing python years
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand. Eric Idle
writing television evening
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
writing unique thinking
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.
writing comedy performing
When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.
writing self hands
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off
writing smell sweat
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat. Eric Hoffer
writing obscurity pieces
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.
writing lunch waiting
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.
writing ideas sickness
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .
writing play acting
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. Eric Bogosian
writing past people
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
writing thinking people
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
writing
I write, but I also act.
writing creative television
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. Eric Bana
writing giving important
Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All. Ennio Morricone
writing score used
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.
writing diaries
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell
writing careers people
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write. James Franco
writing tasmania should
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania. James Cook
writing worst
Writing is the worst part of being a writer. James Atlas