Quotes about writing
writing merit source
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. Al Yankovic
writing knows
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
writing simplicity belief
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence. Alain de Botton
writing trying attention
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
writing use naivety
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
writing fiction uncomfortable
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
writing what-matters records
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
writing sane
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
writing self careers
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
writing men sexuality
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. Al Goldstein
writing tv-shows worry
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. Al Franken
writing satisfaction
I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.
writing choices sometimes
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.
writing come-up cases
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it. Aimee Mann
writing giving scripts
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it. Ajay Devgan
writing ideas enlightenment
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. Charles Jencks
writing successful sky
It starts with the writing - which is really, really good. And the production values are phenomenal. HBO and Sky have spent money on it, and you get what you pay for. This has money put into it properly - not lavish amounts - but as each season is successful, they maintain the money that's being spent to maintain the quality. Charles Dance
writing character pigs
But the quality of writing in the series [game of Thrones] is paramount. That's probably why all of us are involved in this and all of us are quite so loyal to it, because we don't have to expend a lot of energy trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. The quality of the writing is really good, and that's what makes playing a character so enjoyable, whether he's heroic or villainous.
writing next-day conclusion
Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.
writing aids alliteration
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. Charles Churchill
writing imagination fiction
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. Charles Colson
writing men thinking
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley]. Charles Darwin
writing rhyme
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that. Channing Tatum
writing wife people
I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.
writing caring thoughtful
I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.
writing i-can ifs
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed. Alanis Morissette
writing expression piano
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
writing people records
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!
writing writing-music enjoy
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
writing home dresses
There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
writing thinking mind
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. Blaise Pascal
writing mathematical please
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
writing desire wish
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.