Quotes about writing
writing play people
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net. James Gray
writing people knows
In general, markets know more than the people who write about them. James Grant
writing order years
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot. James Fenton
writing faces problem
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
writing iowa creative
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.
writing reputation publishers
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. Laurence J. Peter
writing next firsts
I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next. Laurence Sterne
writing firsts almighty-god
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
writing thinking talking
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
writing
I had been writing professionally since 1988 Laura Hillenbrand
writing phones information
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
writing childhood choices
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write
writing california southern
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level. Larry Gelbart
writing make-happy ridiculous
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
writing thinking numbers
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
writing play two
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.
writing easy hopefully
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
writing differences personality
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. Larry Hagman
writing oddities hands
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. Kurt Tucholsky
writing guy focus
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. Kurt Sutter
writing
I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced. Liana Liberato
writing thinking funny-things
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person. Liev Schreiber
writing matter
Write like it matters, and it will. Libba Bray
writing doe useless
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen. Leslie Marmon Silko
writing long world
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
writing problem solve
A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. Friedrich Durrenmatt
writing amusement rich
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. Frederick Marryat
writing clothes people
Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes. George Fetherling
writing people prejudice
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business. George Gissing
writing men broken
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?
writing blue three
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired. George Gershwin
writing symphony people
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
writing fighting boys
There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about. Not to see on television, but to read about. Let the writers take over. George Foreman