Quotes about writ
writing fiction males
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry. Erica Jong
writing mind levels
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
writing listening important
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
writing surrender
One writes not by will but by surrender.
writing magic enough
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules. Eric Burns
writing who-i-am comfortable
As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. Eric Church
writing guy wish
I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire. Eric Clapton
writing bored choices
[Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice. Enrique Iglesias
writing get-better pages
Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better. Emma Forrest
writing keys talking
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. Elvis Costello
writing opportunity years
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
writing scary needs
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me. And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist. Jay Asher
writing views guy
Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that. Jason Statham
writing agents want
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. Jasper Fforde
writing player people
You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be. Jason Spezza
writing play actors
Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all. Jason Schwartzman
writing thinking editing
Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them. Jason Reitman
writing thinking next-week
The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.
writing sea tuition
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
writing want pieces
I always write the pieces I want to write.
writing ideas pages
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
writing people becoming
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
writing iceland trying
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. Hannah Kent
writing use want
If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content. Hannibal Buress
writing editing issues
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face. Guy Kawasaki
writing engineers
For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
writing way enchantment
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.
writing years facts
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years. Gerry Mulligan
writing choices kind
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. Ivy Compton-Burnett
writing immensity
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible Italo Calvino
writing play reason-why
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing Irwin Shaw
writing details prose
Details are the Life of Prose. Jack Kerouac
writing mind want
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,