Quotes about writ
writing painter
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. Edward Dahlberg
writing farming scruples
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
writing giving
When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper. Edward Boyden
writing play mad
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. Edward Bond
writing play down-and
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play
writing negativity shapes
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
writing thinking
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out. Edward Albee
writing people together
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.
writing thinking attention
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.
writing
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
writing typing
Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.
writing accused
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
writing reality thinking
Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.
writing years play
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
writing playwright
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.
writing goes-on assuming
I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.
writing thinking people
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.
writing play fetus
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
writing play differences
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.
writing play assumption
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.
writing people age
Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
writing thinking needs
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene? Edan Lepucki
writing boundaries connected
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. Henri Nouwen
writing play journal
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. Heather O'Reilly
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher
writing long stories
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. Henry Cloud
writing love-is names
Other-Love is writing's first name. Helene Cixous
writing stranger bizarre
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. Helena Christensen
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
written
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. John Lydon