Quotes about writ
writing brave needs
When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room. Tom Waits
writing suffering quality
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
writing tvs different
TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer. Tom Skerritt
writing luck may
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook) Steven Heighton
writing feels core
I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core. Steven Erikson
writing people records
I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down. Steve McQueen
writing joy
Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me. Steve Martin
writing thinking past
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.
writing thinking editing
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
writing play long
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
writing thinking ideas
To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
writing scripts firsts
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
writing skills credit
I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
writing fire play
I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
writing years people
I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a vibrancy to it 50 years from now.
writing editors mind
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
writing emotional skills
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.
writing accomplishment acting
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.
writing voice majority
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to. Steve Berry
writing stories structure
I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. Steve Buscemi
writing masters plans
I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
writing training actors
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
writing company techie
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. Steve Ballmer
writing office world
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. Steve Carell
writing aspect performing
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
writing want privacy
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. Stephen Hawking
writing ideas creative
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Stephen King
writing thinking people
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
writing shining fiction
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
writing voice stories
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
writing dressing-up clothes
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
writing cutting thinking
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.
writing thinking ideas
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.