Quotes about writ
writing asking-why fans
Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much. Lillian Gish
writing people diaries
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. Pablo Picasso
writing thinking artist
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. Paul Schrader
writing play interesting
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
writing letters love-letter
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. Paul Stanley
writing actors sticks
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. Paul Muni
writing trying firsts
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up Paul Muldoon
writing littles i-can
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
writing golf games
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. Paul Michael Glaser
writing people building
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like. Paul Buchheit
writing records sexiest
I write the most sexiest records out. Kool Keith
writing process writing-process
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. Olivia Wilde
writing perfect long
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow. Margaret Atwood
writing ratios reason
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
writing careers firsts
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. Marcel Achard
writing thinking ability
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. Kenny Hickey
writing interesting people
Anyway...I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it. Ken MacLeod
writing may firsts
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft. Elizabeth Hardwick
writing giving people
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. Eli Broad
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about Elias Canetti
writing people buried
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. Elia Kazan
writing waiting merit
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
writing self creative
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. Eli Roth
writing men years
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. B. C. Forbes
writing men needs
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. Ashley Montagu
writing successful age
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. Bruce Springsteen
writing outsiders
You have to be an outsider to write, Martin Cruz Smith
writing register i-can
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, Martin Amis
writing dumb reader
Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
writing way talent
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
writing government long
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. Pierre Beaumarchais
writing years two
My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that. Philipp Meyer
writing world classical-music
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music. Philippe Petit