Quotes about writing
writing advice wells
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. David Guterson
writing groups composer
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. David Del Tredici
writing symphony musical
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
writing issues language
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. David Crystal
writing attention drunkenness
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. David Crosby
writing brain
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain. David Cross
writing upset female
And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.
writing thinking ideas
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.
writing views people
I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are? Dave Barry
writing thinking care
When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.
writing despair elements
Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.
writing transition machines
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.
writing thinking people
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going.
writing differences giving
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists. David Suchet
writing thinking epic
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. David Talbot
writing law giving
All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law. David Rubenstein
writing mean play
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence. . . . I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling. David Rabe
writing littles conscious
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. David Rakoff
writing guarantees-that easier
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
writing hands league
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. David R. Brower
writing giving tables
What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else. David Morse
writing school years
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. David Niven
writing mathematical-equations long
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. Carl Sagan
writing light mind
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. Byron Katie
writing judging four
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
writing long fiction
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. Buddy Ebsen
writing thinking play
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. Buddy Rich
writing keys giving
If you give the actors a problem 'I'm not getting something out of the scene' and it's the writing, we just don't have the scene, if you give them the problem and just give them some key thoughts they can bring some great solutions to the equation too. So if it's just not perfect, or I'm not getting all I can, I'll open it up to them and say let's talk about it. Bryan Singer
writing school passion
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting. Bryce Dallas Howard
writing done orchestra
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras. Bryan Ferry
writing stories may
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'. Bryce Courtenay
writing trying appeals
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams
writing thinking different
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different. Chace Crawford