Quotes about writing
writing character emotional
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way. Dana Spiotta
writing technology trying
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
writing long novel
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
writing comedy spontaneity
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. Dane Cook
writing everyday littles
I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.
writing night funny-things
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
writing play ideas
I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade. Dallas Roberts
writing thinking years
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own. Damian Kulash
writing thinking littles
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." Curtis Sittenfeld
writing trying special
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating
writing people qualified
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
writing men thinking
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
writing confusion way
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
writing want three
You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass. Craig Brewer
writing choices important
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. David Chase
writing stuff sometimes
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. David Byrne
writing stuff agendas
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
writing
I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.
writing winning thinking
You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end. Dave Haywood
writing ideas two
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does." Dave Hickey
writing thinking bars
If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level. Dave McKean
writing speech use
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. Dario Fo
writing breathing rambling
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
writing thinking guitar
I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me. Dave Matthews
writing thinking race
A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.
writing thinking fearless
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.
writing stories remember
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. Dave Eggers
writing talking people
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
writing college class
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
writing mind important
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
writing soul reviews
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul. David Lehman
writing dark people
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do. David Lindsay-Abaire
writing passion play
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.