Quotes about writing
writing ideas brilliant
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. Raymond E. Feist
writing america interesting
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. Richard Russo
writing fiction assuming
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
writing thinking views
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
writing thinking class
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
writing self views
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
writing mind next
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
writing thinking risk
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
writing character play
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to make her make sense. It took me awhile to learn that these three people were the core of this play, which seems so obvious now. Richard Greenberg
writing play new-day
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. Richard Foreman
writing artist guitar
I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist. Richard Fleeshman
writing form force
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. Richard Flanagan
writing thinking should
I think writing should be about change.
writing thinking order
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. Richard Ford
writing years take-me
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
writing persistence done
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
writing stories influence
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
writing hands force
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
writing college hospitality
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
writing heart way
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
writing quality want
It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out. Richard Gere
writing elderly people
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. Ricardo Montalban
writing men thinking
Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway. Rich Sommer
writing people
Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write? Rich Mullins
writing veins down-and
Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein. Red Barber
writing memoir stills
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs. Rebecca Wells
writing glasses challenges
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.
writing together actors
For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together. Reba McEntire
writing thinking names
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw! Rebecca Hall
writing home weekend
Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike... Rebel Wilson
writing moon listening
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. Robert Duvall
writing years want
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them. Robert De Niro
writing ifs
If you like not my writing, go read something else. Robert Burton