Quotes about writing
writing style natural
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. Blaise Pascal
writing winning thinking
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do. Billy Boyd
writing sake want
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. Billie Joe Armstrong
writing thinking directors
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. Billy Bob Thornton
writing style kind
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.
writing voice people
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.
writing helping kind
I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.
writing character film
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
writing thinking people
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
writing easy music-is
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. Bill Haley
writing wells accord
I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one." Bill Hader
writing want actors
I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.
writing generations asking
I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered. Bill James
writing language-words language
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. Elie Wiesel
writing opposites routine
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
writing order mad
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
writing reap
And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.
writing order sculpture
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
writing musical needs
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
writing understanding literature
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
writing men due-process-of-law
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. Edward R. Murrow
writing past order
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States. Edward Said
writing phones government
Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime. Edward Snowden
writing self equal
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.
writing brilliant
Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him. Bruce Vilanch
writing screens
I do a lot of screen re-writing.
writing film notes
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films. Bruce Bennett
writing stories may
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work. Bruce Chatwin
writing half kind
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. Bruce Cockburn
writing two together
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
writing play long
Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long. Brit Marling
writing talking guy
When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.
writing laughing sitting
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.