Quotes about writ
writing people fiction
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. Laurell K. Hamilton
writing color people
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers. Lanford Wilson
writing people wonder
How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing. John Kasich
writing kissing letters
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. John Keats
writing add debate
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. Lion Feuchtwanger
writing names profound
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. Plato
writing cutting ideas
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable. Joss Whedon
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.
writing rocks creative
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning. Kim Smith
writing funny-things notes
I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes. Kevin Hart
writing years next-day
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing air poetry
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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