Quotes about writing
writing odd-things stories
It was difficult, and yet I was very eager to do it. It was a really odd thing. I really wanted to do that story. I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk. I really wanted to do it in the movie. Ronald D. Moore
writing loss office
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. Ron Suskind
writing white house
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again
writing exercise exposure
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. Ron White
writing justice president
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional. Ron Fournier
writing doors desperate
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel, Samantha Shannon
writing thinking stories
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. Samantha Morton
writing thinking interesting
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited. Rupert Holmes
writing three world
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. Rupert Brooke
writing people age
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. Rupert Everett
writing broke pens
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. Rumi
writing neurosis novelists
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. Tom Robbins
writing would-be matter
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
writing adventure journey
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
writing novel ready
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
writing bottles geese
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
writing air ideas
Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
writing next madness
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
writing sentences
I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
writing novelists twisted
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
writing fool best-place
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
writing thinking mind
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
writing paper woods
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
writing thinking museums
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
writing heart creating
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
writing long fiction
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.
writing dark dust
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.
writing helping compare
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
writing fiction nimble
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.
writing
Write like no one's going to read it ! Tom Evans
writing tubas orchestra
I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set. Tom Fontana
writing acting want
Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. Tom Felton
writing character acting
When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done. Tom Ford