Quotes about writing
writing people awkward
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things. D. A. Carson
writing plans knows
I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from. D. H. Lawrence
writing humanity mass
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
writing sneezing spiteful
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
writing two tickets
I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
writing thinking doe
Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it. Conor McPherson
writing blessing ifs
If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.
writing wish may
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. Conrad Veidt
writing sitting tables
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. Conrad Hall
writing shadow writing-music
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
writing thinking self
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize. Conor Oberst
writing giving charity
It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.
writing thinking confusion
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
writing two giving
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. Clifton Fadiman
writing mind flesh
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
writing choices poor
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
writing thinking perfect
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would all agree that it's all based upon material and the material has got to spark with you. It may be great material but you think it's great material for somebody else. Or it's great material and I'm perfect for it. So, you just have to make that judgment and if you feel in the mood to do it. Clint Eastwood
writing caves done
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. Claire Cameron
writing kids son
Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?
writing boring newsworthy
It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy. Clare Balding
writing careers acting
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. Danny Strong
writing courses
I took a lot of writing courses.
writing thinking order
The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity. Danny Pino
writing successful exercise
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. Danny Elfman
writing symphony desire
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
writing talking religion
... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them. Daniel Dennett
writing people doubt
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
writing play waiting-around
It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself Dan Castellaneta
writing process novel
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. Dan Chaon
writing knowing worry
I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.
writing world pages
The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.
writing stories daydreaming
That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.
writing people trying
A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of the time. So you just keep doing what you like to do, I guess, and try to enjoy it.