Quotes about writing
writing kitchen sitting
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Dodie Smith
writing ifs
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
writing college want
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
writing cooking breakfast
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. Dolly Parton
writing home nashville
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.
writing thinking musical
I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
writing gone
I write for myself things that I've gone through.
writing different my-favorite
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.
writing self tasks
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected. Dick Francis
writing good-writing
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. Dick Schaap
writing focus chinese
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India. Devdutt Pattanaik
writing home office
I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people. Dermot Healy
writing player league
If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh. Derrek Lee
writing average poetry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. Derek Walcott
writing reason programming
Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing. Derek Sivers
writing needs said
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. Delmore Schwartz
writing enjoy feels
I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times. Debbie Harry
writing long people
People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that. Dax Shepard
writing games chess-game
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling. Amber Benson
writing mountain looks
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge. Anthony Minghella
writing guitar circles
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. Andres Segovia
writing mean reality
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
writing simple stories
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. Chuck Palahniuk
writing people fax
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.
writing looks retrospect
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
writing character hands
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
writing done pieces
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
writing details kind
The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
writing ideas people
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
writing way presenting
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
writing retrospect versions
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
writing thinking giving
I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.
writing worry focus
What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.