Quotes about writ
writing men thinking
Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when. John Carpenter
writing play keyboards
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
writing ruthless
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. John Berryman
writing want yeats
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
writing trying technique
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.
writing people world
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible. John Berger
writing people political
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
writing trying stories
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
writing lazy computer
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs. John Backus
writing something-new knows
Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new! Joe Haldeman
writing happened
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
writing imagination advice
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
writing roles want
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant. Joe Jonas
writing night thinking
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
writing one-day stories
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time. Joe Hill
writing sweaters guy
I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write: "You are here". I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet. Joan Rivers
writing sentences happens
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. Jincy Willett
writing earth hell
Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong. Jimmy Webb
writing simple should-have
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.
writing thinking people
Greatest misconception about We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing. Jimmy Wales
writing bucks statistics
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. George A. Romero
writing belief turned-down
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. George Ade
writing roots our-lives
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives. George A. Sheehan
writing casts
When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths. Geoff Stults
writing challenges growth
Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow. Geoff Thompson
writing scott-fitzgerald way
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s. Garrett Hedlund
writing reflection years
My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this is not good enough. We got to create our own shows. I said, but we're very happy doing this. No, no, no, you got to get your own show. So he made me - and he and I created our own shows. And we actually - everything we created failed. "Hey, Landlord" was our first show - 99th in the ratings. But imagine this - it's a great reflection on the years. Garry Marshall
writing bishops way
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.
writing ambitious radio
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.
writing comedian clubs
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on.
writing satisfaction feels
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
writing frustration people
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. Garrison Keillor
writing laptops impossible
I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.