Quotes about writ
writing breathing order
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them. Dana Spiotta
writing technology trying
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
writing long novel
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
writing comedy spontaneity
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. Dane Cook
writing night funny-things
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
writing trying special
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating Curtis Sittenfeld
writing confusion way
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
writing want three
You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass. Craig Brewer
writing choices important
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. David Chase
writing stuff sometimes
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. David Byrne
writing stuff agendas
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
writing
I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.
writing winning thinking
You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end. Dave Haywood
writing thinking bars
If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level. Dave McKean
writing thinking guitar
I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me. Dave Matthews
writing thinking fearless
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.
writing stories remember
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. Dave Eggers
writing mind important
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
writing dark people
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do. David Lindsay-Abaire
writing thinking who-i-am
I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.
writing rabbits looks
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
writing play nazi
Only assholes write plays about Nazis.
writing return exhausted
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. David Leavitt
writing fiction common
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
writing love-is trying
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. David Levithan
writing two needs
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China. David Letterman
writing air smell
Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations. David Gerrold
writing fighting men
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different. David Gemmell
writing europe stuff
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. David Bowie
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing vivid-imagination world
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci