Quotes about writing
writing practice wish
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. David Remnick
writing remember hard
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
writing character play
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going. David Henry Hwang
writing love-is years
I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion. David Icke
writing natural fine
Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious. David Hume
writing tables london
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.
writing trying like-you
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. David Duchovny
writing hard-work thinking
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.
writing trilogies
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy. David Brin
writing backgrounds
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing
writing character feelings
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring
writing doubt training
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
writing family-friends family-life
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
writing wife guy
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony. David Brooks
writing brain levels
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.
writing years autobiography
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?' Arnold Schwarzenegger
writing way wanted
It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about. Ben Stiller
writing careers guy
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
writing identity diaries
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. Beatrice Webb
writing written-language
The shorter and the plainer the better. Beatrix Potter
writing firsts stories
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
writing tape records
I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. Barry Bonds
writing gay rights
The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out. Barney Frank
writing ideas america
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America. August Wilson
writing play black
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.
writing space giving
I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
writing play support
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
writing awards focus
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
writing thinking artist
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
writing audience particular
I don't write for a particular audience.
writing responsibility artist
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.
writing editing eloquent
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
writing men who-i-am
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.