Quotes about writ
writing giving said
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power. Toni Morrison
writing people want
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
writing ideas answers
I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
writing firsts novel
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
writing practice people
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs. Tommy Bolin
writing opportunity play
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
writing people radio
I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is. Tom Verlaine
writing knows
You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.
writing home class
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing? Tom T. Hall
writing
I write constantly about everything. Tom Sturridge
writing frustration small-numbers
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. Tom Stoppard
writing artist oxygen
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
writing editing good-things
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
writing bites
can only write about what bites you.
writing play cooking
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
writing flow facts
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
writing play way
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
writing thinking play
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
writing play preparation
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
writing intellectual
I write out of my intellectual experience.
writing editing whales
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
writing ideas two
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.
writing one-love social
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
writing long half
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
writing play way
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
writing way fiction
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
writing library needs
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
writing wish way
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. Tom Paulin
writing brain relax
There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something. Tom Odell
writing perfect people
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel. Tom Perrotta
writing expression levels
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
writing years two
The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.
writing talking ideas
I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something. Tom Green