Quotes about writ
writing cost want
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. Iain Banks
writing past perfect
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter. Iain Banks
writing thinking stories
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on. Iain Banks
writing skills ability
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. Iain Banks
writing desire ifs
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. Hugh Prather
writing imagination actors
I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected to really make it up in your imagination. That's not really an ideal way of working. Hugh Dancy
writing three answers
Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer. Hugh Bonneville
writing should-have done
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time. Howie Day
writing experience needed
I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate. Howie Mandel
writing doe found
The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings. Howard Zinn
writing play people
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world. Howard Zinn
writing people lines
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place. Howard Zinn
writing crafts stories
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. Howard Gordon
writing novel overwhelming
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. Howard Gordon
writing literature yeats
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. Howard Nemerov
writing thinking different
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. Howard Nemerov
writing dying way
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned. Howard Nemerov
writing should knows
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. Howard Nemerov
writing paper firsts
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper. Howard Nemerov
writing stories paid
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid Horton Foote
writing props
Writing is the thing that props me up. Horton Foote
writing lessons firsts
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen. Horton Foote
writing past thinking
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos. Horton Foote
writing most-powerful written
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Hortense Calisher
writing phrases stories
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life. Hortense Calisher
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind. Hortense Calisher
writing ideas acting
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. Hortense Calisher
writing dark light
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. Howard Barker
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. Horace
writing thinking transcription
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live. Hank Azaria
writing want type
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type. Hannah Arendt
writing excellence
For excellence, the presence of others is always required. Hannah Arendt
writing singing kind
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing. Guy Clark