Quotes about writing
writing math together
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information. Shane Carruth
writing helping-others thinking
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.
writing thinking interesting
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.
writing ideas symphony
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony. Sergei Prokofiev
writing screenplays havens
I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet. Serena Williams
writing mind want
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.
writing ongoing process
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. Sean Durkin
writing please
You can't write something to please someone.
writing matter no-matter-what
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
writing impulse ifs
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time. Seamus Heaney
writing self giving
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
writing self empowerment
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
writing
Write whatever you like!
writing joy rewards
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
writing self forgetful
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
writing years female
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way! Michael Patrick King
writing thinking hollywood
I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood. Michael Pena
writing trying ordinary
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things. Michael Pollan
writing trying firsts
I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.
writing stakes
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.
writing found findings
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
writing atheism littles
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
writing irony
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
writing self tools
There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself.
writing finding-the-one phrases
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
writing done pieces
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
writing doors stories
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door. Michael Koryta
writing love-is process
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.
writing thinking focus-and-concentration
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. Michael LeBoeuf
writing soul trying
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation. Sidney Lanier
writing exciting novel
Writing novels is the most exciting Sidney Sheldon
writing world research
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
writing men important
I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.