Quotes about writing
writing thinking who-i-am
I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it. David Lindsay-Abaire
writing rabbits looks
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
writing play nazi
Only assholes write plays about Nazis.
writing return exhausted
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. David Leavitt
writing fiction common
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
writing love-is trying
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. David Levithan
writing night guy
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap! David Letterman
writing two needs
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
writing air smell
Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations. David Gerrold
writing fighting men
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different. David Gemmell
writing europe stuff
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. David Bowie
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing vivid-imagination world
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
writing thinking singing
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Dave Grohl
writing college advertising
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. David Ogilvy
writing thinking people
People who think well, write well
writing lucky winner
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
writing way
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
writing men agency
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
writing acceptable
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. David Mamet
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing thinking secret
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
writing fighting thinking
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
writing thinking hands
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that. Daryl Hall
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Dario Argento
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing thinking role-models
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to. Condoleezza Rice
writing stuff bigs
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. Colin Baker
writing today garbage
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. Cleveland Amory