Quotes about writ
writing may want
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. Lyndon B. Johnson
writing waiting acting
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. Lukas Haas
writing years lifetime
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. Lukas Foss
writing creative letters
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
writing way felt
Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. Luke Evans
writing less-is-more
Less is more. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
writing character long
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin. Lucas Neff
writing ideas waiting
Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
writing brain language
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. Louise Leakey
writing today embarrassed
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. Louise Mensch
writing law serious
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
writing thinking novel
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. Louise Penny
writing jealous self
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
writing fake degrees
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake. Louis Dudek
writing thinking self
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English. Louis Begley
writing confession interest
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
writing fire long
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
writing events lessons
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.
writing fire lakes
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison. Louis Auchincloss
writing character mean
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more articulately than some critics think, but before the 20th century it really didn't occur to many writers that their language had to be the language of everyday speech. When Wordsworth first considered that in poetry, it was considered very much of a shocker. And although I'm delighted to have things in ordinary speech, it's not what I'm trying to perform myself at all: I want my characters to get their ideas across, and I want them to be articulate.
writing rewriting great-writing
There is no great writing, only great rewriting. Louis D. Brandeis
writing rewriting good-writing
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
writing made uncomfortable
I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible. Lori Foster
writing people songwriting
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people. Loretta Lynn
writing solitude letters
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. Lord Byron
writing ears way
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
writing mad mind
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
writing gambling unpredictable
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. M. John Harrison
writing want causes
You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes. M. Night Shyamalan
writing thinking dying
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
writing people sometimes
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
writing clean ends
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one. M. F. K. Fisher
writing cooking desks
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.