Quotes about writing
writing people literature
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. Harvey Pekar
writing wife argument
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
writing people common
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
writing people wish
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes
writing stuff splendor
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
writing filled-in space
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. Harold Ross
writing character doors
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do. Harold Pinter
writing want usual
I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.
writing thinking giving
I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
writing wish different
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.
writing thinking mind
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
writing literature life-worth-living
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
writing opportunity people
As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control. Harold Ramis
writing ideas performing
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.
writing play good-movie
Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.
writing names challenges
When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.
writing stories next
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
writing
And I love writing. I've always loved writing. James Daly
writing hands film
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. James Broughton
writing issues flags
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
writing important
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
writing order emotion
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
writing thinking white
I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle. James Blunt
writing men people
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality. James Branch Cabell
writing fancy may
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. James Boswell
writing yield joy
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
writing stills slate
Writing is still on my slate. Jaleel White
writing thinking race
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin. Jamaica Kincaid
writing thinking who-i-am
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.
writing mets dismissal
My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.
writing editors rivers
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.
writing race people
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."
writing two justice
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.