Quotes about writ
writing good-writing
Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly. Martin Freeman
writing men facts
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger
writing careers painful
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. Marsha Norman
writing joy pieces
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
writing piano grew
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
writing play people
In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
writing weapons literature
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon. Mario Vargas Llosa
writing wife ruins
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. Mario Puzo
writing people lucky
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of. Nicholas Stoller
writing tragedy stories
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. Nicholas Sparks
writing doors two
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
writing giving joy
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. Pramoedya Ananta Toer
writing order loser
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.
writing men expression
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice. Potter Stewart
writing archetype
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them? Poul Anderson
writing thinking choices
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. Poppy Z. Brite
writing long being-ignored
If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.
writing thinking voice
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.
writing actors tailors
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. Judd Apatow
writing emotional thinking
I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.
writing scripts
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.
writing risk performing
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.
writing laughing people
I wrote on the Grammys, and a few times for Garry Shandling when he was hosting. I couldn't have enjoyed those gigs more, because I would get to collaborate and try to make people I looked up to laugh, but for the most part, when you're as talented as they are, what they really want is someone who can type fast and whose presence makes them feel in the mood to write and spew and be creative, and I was a good person to have in the room.
writing thinking trying
I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a rule where the bar, to get your name added to the writing credits, if you've done a revision, is very high if you're also the producer or director.
writing thinking bigs
I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.
writing soul humans
Writers are the engineers of human souls. Joseph Stalin
writing names crafts
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. Joseph Brodsky
writing men self
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
writing people etcetera
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.
writing views people
As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .
writing democracy want
I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.
writing talent good-writing
Good writing comes from good talent. Leonardo da Vinci
writing greatness men
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde