Quotes about writ
writing one-day permission
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. Sherri Shepherd
writing tired order
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
writing pieces thanks
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
writing bored effort
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
writing blood remember
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
writing pages
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
writing years two
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
writing literature condescension-and
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
writing two three
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
writing hands washing
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
writing dark wicked
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it. Seth Grahame-Smith
writing media next-week
From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in. Seth MacFarlane
writing six-months littles
We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it. Seth Rogen
writing want roles
I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
writing computer
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. Sebastian Bach
writing training mountain
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. Sebastian Junger
writing weekend vacation
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. Sloane Crosley
writing guitar crap
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. Siobhan Fahey
writing
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. Sissy Spacek
writing fiction remember
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. Siri Hustvedt
writing assumption
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
writing thinking people
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people. Simon Winchester
writing royal irony
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. Simon Van Booy
writing scientist
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. Sinclair Lewis
writing safe polite
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
writing secret use
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
writing long people
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
writing player giving
My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies. Sinead O'Connor
writing past want
There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
writing cutting dark
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows. Rajneesh
writing men rights
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own. Sojourner Truth
writing thinking
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time. Sofia Coppola
writing mind matter
Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times. Smokey Robinson