Quotes about writ
writing light play
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play. Sam Shepard
writing acting division
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
writing constitution madison
There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here. Rush Limbaugh
writing acting watches
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.
writing sublime important
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. Thomas Lynch
writing wind tree
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. Thomas Merton
writing helping-others men
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.
writing one-day authenticity
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day? Thomas Carlyle
writing men discovery
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
writing labor idleness
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
writing ideas done
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. Tony Judt
writing play doe
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. Tony Kushner
writing play political
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'
writing artist creepy
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
writing bars balls
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
writing play people
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
writing thinking your-side
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
writing people political
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
writing back-to-work torture
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
writing want
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. Tony Earley
writing feelings knows
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling. Tommy Lee
writing average records
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
writing listening playing-music
It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.
writing home house
When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
writing feels knows
You know what, I just write what I feel.
writing intention knows
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
writing catholic corinthians
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back? Tommy Lasorda
writing feelings matter
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write. Tom Wolfe
writing fiction problem
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
writing trying way
You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it. Tom Waits
writing drawing air
I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.
writing bees instruments
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
writing self order
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.