Quotes about writ
writing exercise years
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all. George Lopez
writing successful thinking
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful. George Lucas
writing self doubt
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
writing thinking very-good
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
writer
The more you live, the better writer you are. Meg Rosoff
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
writing thinking political
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page. David Almond
writing simple psychics
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. David Allen
writing trying together
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing. Dave Franco
writing love-is lawyer
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. David Shapiro
writing editors editing
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft. David Sedaris
writing watches glee
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.
writing thinking people
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
writing temptation internet
I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word of it to anyone until I was 28. I had the sense to keep it to myself. Now the temptation with blogs and such, they're just getting it out there; maybe it would have been best to keep it to themselves.
writing mean thinking
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.
writing doors class
In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.
writing thinking identity
I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.
writing giving people
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
writing thinking wells
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, David McCullough
writing thinking suffering
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
writing love-is thinking
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
writing thinking play
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
writing editing self
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. David Mitchell
writing emotional thinking
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write. David Gray
writing way said
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it. David Guterson
writing advice wells
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
writing brain
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain. David Cross
writing thinking people
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going. Dave Barry
writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton
writing first-love should-have
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. Charles Dickens
writing years long
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. Charles Stross
writing blessing people
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble Charles Spurgeon