Quotes about writ
writing editing eloquent
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. August Wilson
writing needs
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there Audre Lorde
writing people littles
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them. Diablo Cody
writing thinking ideas
The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!
writing college benefits
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems. Derek Bok
writing college thinking
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
writing people challenges
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny. Denis Norden
writing world language
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language. Denise Levertov
writing drug salesman
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer. Kurt Vonnegut
writing scripts harder
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. Bill Murray
writing precise
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time. Bertrand Russell
writing thinking down-and
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it. Cecily von Ziegesar
writing musician folk-music
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. Cass McCombs
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing years ducks
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. Carl Barks
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. Agnes Repplier
writing thinking people
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like. Aaron Sorkin
writing division-of-labor doe
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
writing thinking would-be
I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
writing thinking people
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
writing eight scripts
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
writing world curtains
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead. Charles de Lint
writing rocks old-and-new
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. Cheryl Mendelson
writing romance kind
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. Charlaine Harris
writing literature fifty
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. Charles Baudelaire
writing poetry literature
Always be a poet, even in prose.
writing stuff emotion
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. Chantal Kreviazuk
writing half six
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. Chaim Potok
writing decision force
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing. Charlie Kaufman
writing character trying
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
writing way knows
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.