Quotes about writ
writing people guy
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life. Joss Whedon
writing insane lines
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. Leon Uris
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing memoir
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. Elizabeth Gilbert
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing gun stories
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation. Haruki Murakami
writing thinking cinema
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright
writing ideas plot
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Jo Nesbo
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher
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 trying unendurable
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. Danielle Steel