Quotes about writing
writing together different
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. Marilyn Hacker
writing oddities ideas
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
writing vocabulary example
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
writing law errors
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Nick Harkaway
writing thinking together
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers. Nick Kroll
writing perspective important
I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture. Nick Cave
writing heart air
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
writing ideas people
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.
writing office long
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
writing ideas scripts
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
writing equations ifs
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
writing levels beneficial
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
writing scene
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
writing men mind
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.
writing
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
writing office
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
writing
Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.
writing years want
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out. Nick Bantock
writing long letters
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
writing stories
Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you. Nick Carter
writing effort paradox
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday
writing names who-i-am
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about. Nana Visitor
writing brain down-and
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. Mose Allison
writing first-love love-is
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. Missy Elliot
writing blood talking
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. Philip Seymour Hoffman
writing truman selling
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
writing mind fiction
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel. Philip Roth
writing frustration used
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
writing years president
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
writing desire fiction
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
writing wrecks may
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
writing judging
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.