Quotes about writ
writing thinking ideas
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves. Joss Whedon
writing stories way
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back. Joss Whedon
writing play variation
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. Joss Whedon
writing earth want
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to. Joss Whedon
writing firefly people
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot. Joss Whedon
writing giving
I write to give myself strength. Joss Whedon
writing class english-class
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class. Joss Whedon
writing enough
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. Joss Whedon
writing past technology
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now. Joss Whedon
writing ideas firsts
If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. Joss Whedon
writing
You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. Joss Whedon
writing giving people
Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. Joss Whedon
writing perfect-days people
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace. Joss Whedon
writing epic people
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. Joss Whedon
writing rocks creative
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning. Kim Smith
writing talking voice
Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page. Kim Smith
writing emotional feelings
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page. Kim Smith
writing ideas creating
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. Kevin Henkes
writing lunch hours
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. Kevin J. Anderson
writing issues office
For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative. Kevin J. Anderson
writing literature firsts
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. Kevin J. Anderson
writing years income
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way. Kevin J. Anderson
writing wife promotion
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life. Kevin J. Anderson
writing character stories
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. Kevin James
writing trying adequate
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. Kevin Hart
writing moguls produce
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul. Kevin Hart
writing trying anxious
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God. Kevin Hart
writing funny-things notes
I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes. Kevin Hart
writing two long
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity. Kent Haruf
writing style fundamentals
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world. Kenzaburo Oe
writing thinking cosmos
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos. Kenzaburo Oe
writing thinking perfect
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing. Kendra Wilkinson
writing pyramids slave-ships
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs Kendrick Lamar