Quotes about writing
writing play born
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. Edward Albee
writing thinking sometimes
Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.
writing thinking rhythm
Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking, and I write a first draft quite rapidly. Read it over. Make a few pencil corrections, where I think I've got the rhythms wrong in the speeches, for example, and then retype the whole thing. And in the retyping I discover that maybe one or two more speeches will come in. One or two more things will happen, but not much.
writing mind imagine
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
writing talking
I write to find out what I'm talking about.
writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
writing forget moments
Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if I wanted to. Up until that point, I'm so involved with the experience of having written the play, and the nature of it, that I can't see what faults it might have. The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat - of self-critical heat when I'm actually writing.
writing men brilliant
If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well enough written, should not be knocked down because of its approach to its subject.
writing play long
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
writing creative intense
I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.
writing reality opposites
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
writing two life-and-death
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
writing optimism matter
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.
writing men adequate
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. Edgard Varese
writing want draws
I dont want to write, Id rather draw. Eddie Campbell
writing browsing dictionary
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. Eddie Cantor
writing progress world
I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave. Edan Lepucki
writing thinking needs
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?
writing thinking long
At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.
writing want matter
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
writing play written
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me. Holland Taylor
writing occupation consuming
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. Holly Johnson
writing littles biographies
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
writing
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. Holly Black
writing eye voice
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. Hermann Ebbinghaus
writing challenges artistic
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Herman Wouk
writing pages add
Write a page a day. It will add up.
writing broken trying
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
writing blue black
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. Hermann Hesse
writing feet able
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
writing literature growing
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
writing superfluous
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
writing biographies
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.