Quotes about writ
writing dark past
I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about. Michael Chabon
writing finding-yourself mind
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
writing way true-story
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
writing wish want
I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.
writing rights creative
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited. Michael Apted
writing easy deceptive
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. Michael Arndt
writing doe private-parts
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
writing tasks scripts
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
writing ideas two
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
writing self-confidence way
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
writing men faces
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. Oscar Wilde
writing media differences
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
writing ideas water
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. Louis L'Amour
writing optimistic thinking
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act. Michael Cunningham
writing names knowing
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. William Shakespeare
writing problem gender
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. Jim Harrison
writing michigan states
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
writing would-be literature
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
writing i-can
I can write anywhere.
writing rose sitting
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? Jerry Pournelle
writing kids thinking
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down. Jerry Spinelli
writing people feelings
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
writing touching care
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.
writing mind
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
writing voice track
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
writing care chance
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
writing criticism online
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future. Jerry Saltz
writing artist years
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.
writing editors magazines
I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. Jerry Seinfeld
writing credit likes
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. Jerome Kern
writing helping
All experience helps when you write. Jerome Lawrence
writing soul mind
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
writing thinking passionate
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.