Quotes about writing
writing age trying
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age. Brit Marling
writing play waiting
Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
writing thinking machines
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it. Britney Spears
writing ideas giving
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. Brian Lumley
writing wonderful critics
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
writing army hobbies
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
writing choices needs
With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take us where we need to go any way you see fit. I tried to write something specifically for you. If you agree with my choices, fine. If not, you do what you have to do.' Brian Michael Bendis
writing people wish
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.
writing honest songwriting
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. Brian Molko
writing emotion sleeves
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them. Brian McKnight
writing writing-music records
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
writing answers way
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
writing guitar keyboards
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. Brian May
writing people trying
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine. Brian Helgeland
writing thinking suffering
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.
writing oil fire
If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.
writing thinking hands
I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
writing years film
I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
writing thinking world
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one, I think to myself: 'why in the world do I think I know how to do this?'
writing symphony vcr
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. Brian Ferneyhough
writing reality thinking
Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can we write down a universe that doesn't have time? Sure. Do we think that would be realised in the larger reality that is out there? None of us take that possibility seriously. Brian Greene
writing thinking curious
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. Breyten Breytenbach
writing laughing audience
I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react. Brett Ratner
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing steel metals
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
writing two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing paper care
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures! Boss Tweed
writing reality views
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
writing spheres cylinders
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained. Archimedes
writing years america
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around. Argus Hamilton
writing color people
When I started out in the '90s, there were not many people of color writing, directing and producing - hence, the roles for people of color were few and far between. There's still few roles in England [where she's from]. Archie Panjabi
writing reality giving
Writers . . . write to give reality to experience. Archibald MacLeish
writing should-have explanation
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.