Quotes about writ
writing listening funny-travel
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. Thomas Perry
writing literature
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. Robert Metcalfe
writing discovery knows
We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. Robert McKee
writing marathon sprint
Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.
writing rough-times reason
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
writing cake recipes
There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.
writing play imagination
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.
writing ideas two
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.
writing discipline drill-sergeant
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
writing stuff comedy
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff. Robert Knepper
writing walking-dead grumpy
If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman
writing way
I write the way I write.
writing looks trouble
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
writing political interest
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. Robert Harris
writing trying four
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
writing heart stories
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
writing years too-late
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
writing thinking years
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. Robert H. Schuller
writing games advice
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the public, I have immediate feedback. There are so many things I want to say - about events in the news, politics, the gamesmanship and manipulations I read about, thoughts that occur to me about the power game, advice, on and on. Robert Greene
writing talking space
One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.
writing working-for-a-living
Writing thats not working for a living. Robert Asprin
writing umpires ideas
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. Robert B. Parker
writing want twenties
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.
writing pages five
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
writing acceptance order
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.
writing parent want
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
writing people advice
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
writing ideas people
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you. Robert Anton Wilson
writing editors long
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. Ricky Jay
writing easier
Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
writing practice confusing
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split! Richard Lederer
writing today tongue
Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
writing use clay
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that. Richard Linklater