Quotes about writing
writing thinking people
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about. Marc Almond
writing hot rejected
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. Kinky Friedman
writing work-out sometimes
I never said I was a weightlifter. I never said I was trained. I'm not a personal trainer. I just enjoy working out. So sometimes I feel like, do I have to write a disclaimer? Like, disclaimer: "I'm not a trainer." Khloe Kardashian
writing my-own ifs
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take. Kid Rock
writing people target
I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. Kevin Mitnick
writing adventure challenges
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
writing thinking ability
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. Kenny Hickey
writing creative kind
If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself. Kenny Loggins
writing interesting people
Anyway...I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it. Ken MacLeod
writing secret becoming
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
writing growing awareness
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. Ken Livingstone
writing acting use
I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa. Katie Chang
writing independent thinking
I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal. Margaret Cho
writing matter no-matter-what
I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.
writing people rabbits
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. Margaret Atwood
writing perfect done
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. Mark Twain
writing may firsts
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft. Elizabeth Hardwick
writing long favors
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. Elizabeth Janeway
writing giving people
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. Eli Broad
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about Elias Canetti
writing people buried
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. Elia Kazan
writing waiting merit
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
writing self creative
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. Eli Roth
writing men years
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. B. C. Forbes
writing men needs
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. Ashley Montagu
writing successful age
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. Bruce Springsteen
writing boys men
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy! Paul Westerberg
writing men doe
I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did' Paul Weyrich
writing winning long
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history. Paul Watson
writing years acting
I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing. Mel Gibson
writing gigs scripts
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
writing stories brewing
I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.
writing people focus
There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.