Quotes about writing
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. Agnes Repplier
writing thinking people
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like. Aaron Sorkin
writing division-of-labor doe
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
writing thinking would-be
I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
writing thinking people
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
writing eight scripts
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
writing world curtains
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead. Charles de Lint
writing rocks old-and-new
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. Cheryl Mendelson
writing romance kind
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. Charlaine Harris
writing literature fifty
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. Charles Baudelaire
writing poetry literature
Always be a poet, even in prose.
writing stuff emotion
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. Chantal Kreviazuk
writing half six
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. Chaim Potok
writing decision force
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing. Charlie Kaufman
writing character trying
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
writing way knows
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
writing sublime critics
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Charles Saatchi
writing thinking expression
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Charles Mingus
writing cameras twenties
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts. Billy Wilder
writing mind singing
For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop. Beth Moore
writing important about-yourself
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. Bernard Malamud
writing ifs
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
writing ideas reform
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
writing who-you-are
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
writing mirrors looks
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. Bill Withers
writing reflection way
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me. Bill Watterson
writing two balance
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.
writing thinking ideas
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.
writing light mind
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. Byron Katie
writing judging four
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
writing done orchestra
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras. Bryan Ferry
writing stories may
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'. Bryce Courtenay
writing trying appeals
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams