Quotes about writ
writing would-be directors
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing. Chiwetel Ejiofor
writing language novel
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect. Chinua Achebe
writing men thinking
What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing. In the moral dialogue you want to start, you really want to involve the leaders. People ask me: "Why were you so bold as to publish A Man of the People? How did you think the Government was going to take it? You didn't know there was going to be a coup?" I said rather flippantly that nobody was going to read it anyway, so I wasn't likely to be fired from my official position. It's a distressing thought that we cannot engage our leaders in the kind of moral debate we need.
writing feelings fluency
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. Edward Hirsch
writing mind writing-poems
I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.
writing pages way
My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write. Edith Wharton
writing age routine
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
writing people asking
I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me. Eartha Kitt
writing hard-work thinking
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. David Duchovny
writing trilogies
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy. David Brin
writing way wanted
It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about. Ben Stiller
writing firsts stories
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. Beatrix Potter
writing play black
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work. August Wilson
writing responsibility artist
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.
writing editing eloquent
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
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