Quotes about writing
writing self people
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. Kanye West
writing conceited busy
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
writing tv-shows pilots
Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. June Diane Raphael
writing swans research
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. Jung Chang
writing important language
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet June Jordan
writing school numbers
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance. Julie Payette
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes Julie Powell
writing creative obsession
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
writing secret important
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important. Julien Green
writing biographies different
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write. Julie Salamon
writing design dancer
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that. Julie Taymor
writing people
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. Julian Cope
writing here-i-am acting
I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am. Judy Holliday
writing thinking play
I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays. Judy Woodruff
writing thinking play
I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.
writing direct
I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters. Margot Robbie
writing thinking good-things
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. Maria Semple
writing people trying
I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.
writing
Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?
writing stomach
I write from my stomach. Paul Thomas Anderson
writing knowing guy
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.
writing who-i-am people
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
writing thinking childhood
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. Paul Theroux
writing sick long
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
writing persons activity
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
writing hong-kong stories
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
writing former-friends former
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
writing order unhappy
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
writing who-i-am people
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.
writing kind surprise
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.
writing nerves
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
writing capable
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
writing needs stories
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. Paul Kagame