Quotes about writ
writing math chance
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. Mark Haddon
writing today stories
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
writing empathy humdrum
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
writing oddities people
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
writing mind fiction
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. Marion Zimmer Bradley
writing reality bridges
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. Marguerite Young
writing loss years
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
writing four sound
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it. Margery Allingham
writing backgrounds
My background is in improv and writing. Paul Scheer
writing law textbooks
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks Paul Samuelson
writing government people
No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money. Paul Ryan
writing games play
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. Paul Harding
writing cutting different
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different. Paul Greengrass
writing golf games
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey
writing thinking trying
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done. Paul Haggis
writing answers trouble
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
writing interest uneasy
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
writing contradiction humans
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
writing matter projects
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
writing thinking answers
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
writing thinking devil
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ". Paul Goodman
writing self musical-ability
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint. Paul Bailey
writing agents artistic
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
writing boys joy
I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing. Paul Auster
writing shy pieces
I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
writing thinking tone
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. Julia Leigh
writing space roles
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
writing thinking holocaust
It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored. Molly Antopol
writing fine
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word. Moliere
writing novel invitations
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance. Mohsin Hamid
writing government important
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown. Milton Friedman
writing people stories
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. Keegan-Michael Key
writing artist resonance
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself. Kathy Mattea