Quotes about writ
writing character thinking
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others. David Foster Wallace
writing eight worry
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
writing fiction down-and
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.
writing fiction way
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.
writing hands people
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place. David Cook
writing detectives reporters
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. David Coleman
writing moral filmmaker
I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian. David Cronenberg
writing worry hot
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
writing different difficult
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
writing keys people
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
writing college firsts
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.
writing encounters questions-and-answers
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.
writing thinking technique
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
writing thinking writing-poems
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. David Antin
writing remember imagine
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
writing self scripts
I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated. David Ayer
writing play interesting
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it. Dashiell Hammett
writing secret songwriting
The secret of a great melody is a secret. Dave Brubeck
writing years two
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due. Darren Criss
writing comic jokes
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Dave Attell
writing voice parent
The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa... Write it down!
writing hands oysters
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead. Davy Crockett
writing time-zones brain
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone. Dawn French
writing past imagination
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
writing joy simply-love
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
writing joy sitting
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
writing chocolate television
I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
writing way deadline
On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way. Davy Rothbart
writing school night
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
writing thinking pieces
Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while. David Starkey
writing voice feelings
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
writing accomplishment important
I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in remaining visible in the online world. That said, I'm personally turned off by writers' blogs that do nothing but sing their own accomplishments.
writing thinking might
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.