Quotes about writing
writing doors years
During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something]. Woody Allen
writing actors alive
I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.
writing math discovery
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.
writing artist taste
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. William Wordsworth
writing narrative facts
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. William Shenstone
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
writing musical style
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
writing long house
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
writing done way
Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done. William Saroyan
writing careers shortcuts
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
writing stories easy
All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
writing play way
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
writing littles way
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
writing ill-health despair
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
writing humanity way
Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. William McIlvanney
writing connections mars
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? William J. Clinton
writing autism known
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. William Gibson
writing written
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
writing would-be fiction
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
writing years lasts
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds. Will Friedle
writing lions necks
[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject. Will Cuppy
writing goodness dare
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? Will Durant
writing ideas stuff-happens
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere. Sarah Silverman
writing mercy filmmaker
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.
writing littles way
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard. Sara Zarr
writing trying difficult
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
writing criticism circumstances
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism. Samuel P. Huntington
writing enemy never-forget
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. Richard M. Nixon
writing done
Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.
writing way like-you
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards. Rian Johnson
writing editing feelings
When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
writing mind synthesis
I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. Rebecca Miller