Quotes about writing
writing sunday talking
I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent. Mickey Rooney
writing draws visuals
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics. Mika
writing
Everything I write is about me.
writing people outsiders
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
writing guy matter
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. Mickey Rourke
writing style wells
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. Kurt Loder
writing thinking three
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them. Kumail Nanjiani
writing thinking use
Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed. Kirsten Dunst
writing thinking trying
Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also dont be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning. Kimberly Willis Holt
writing horrible
I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible. Kim Carnes
writing heart done
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.
writing thinking people
I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world? Kevin Eubanks
writing should should-i
I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't. Kevin Costner
writing hypnosis coward
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. Kenneth Williams
writing creative would-be
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good. Kenneth Tynan
writing play effort
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
writing said reactionaries
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. Kenneth Rexroth
writing firsts rhythm
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. Ken Hensley
writing careers priorities
The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
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I write what I would like to read. Kathleen Norris
writing heart mean
Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.
writing needs actresses
What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that Kathleen Turner
writing important comedy
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap. Kathleen Hanna
writing want
I just write what I want to write.
writing emotional thinking
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way. Karl Ove Knausgard
writing thinking world
If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.
writing thinking play
You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It's the same kind of feeling. I'm just in it. It's not the words, it's not the sentences, I'm not aware of it. Then it's good.
writing modern-novel trying
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
writing strange easy
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
writing identity happens
National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
writing exercise insignificant-things
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
writing years agents
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript. Karl Marlantes
writing goes-on lasts
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. Karl Marx