Quotes about writ
writing scripts
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write. Ang Lee
writing care i-dont-care
I don't care about writing really.
writing directors kind
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
writing cameras intention
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera. Analeigh Tipton
writing fancy-cars actors
I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.
writing play people
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives. Anatole Broyard
writing want
Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
writing inspired wells
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. Anatole France
writing simple light
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
writing editing sentences
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
writing world sound
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
writing age violence
Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence. Anais Nin
writing emotional algebra
I write emotional algebra.
writing two reactions
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
writing duplicity generosity
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.
writing imagination black
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
writing temperature should
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
writing
To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
writing color fire
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
writing essentials fusion
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
writing color sea
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
writing records needed
I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
writing diaries elements
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
writing alcohol live-in-the-moment
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
writing emotional movement
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
writing commitment culture
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
writing feelings wave
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
writing ideas rose
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything. Amanda McBroom
writing years play
I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff. Amanda Peet
writing focus roles
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
writing learning illiterate-person
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. Alvin Toffler
writing understanding stuff
I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding. Alton Brown
writing dark purple
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose Anne Fadiman