Quotes about writ
writing white ties
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work. Mona Simpson
writing exciting
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds. Molly Shannon
writing write-your-own
If it's not happening, write your own thing!
writing painful process
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful Monica Denise Brown
writing escaping boredom
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian. Monica Ali
writing people perceive
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. Molly Ringwald
writing thinking hard
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
writing long acting
I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.
writing law caves
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
writing play creative
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook Minnie Driver
writing secret down-and
I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box. Miranda Cosgrove
writing college class
Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.
writing sparks each-day
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
writing thinking talking
I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time. Mike Huckabee
writing tasks revision
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. Pearl S. Buck
writing thinking trying
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
writing years months
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
writing scripts deals
Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts. Paula Wagner
writing simple one-sentence
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. Paula McLain
writing cutting talking
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself. Paula Poundstone
writing play symphony
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play. Philip Glass
writing play piano
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
writing people novel
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. Peter Temple
writing sentences
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. Peter Straub
writing ordinary-world lucky
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!
writing done details
I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail. Peter King
writing player years
I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.
writing like-love risk
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient. Terry Tempest Williams
writing thinking letters
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.
writing care taste
I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. Terry Southern
writing contracts studios
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
writing credit directors
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
writing acceptance people
I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.