Quotes about writing
writing views tone
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead. Nora Ephron
writing boys males
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?' - because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'
writing interesting trying
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
writing acceptance care
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
writing hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing about writing is writing.
writing pleasure wells
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. Nora Roberts
writing firsts stories
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
writing laptops
I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
writing process
I loved the process of writing.
writing pages blank
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
writing knowing expectations
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
writing plagiarism difficult
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
writing cleaners
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
writing careers reader
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
writing romance categories
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
writing important pages
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
writing thinking stories
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
writing pages blank-pages
You can fix anything but a blank page.
writing pages blank
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
writing needs
I need to write to be happy.
writing heaven soul
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer! Nikos Kazantzakis
writing mystery havens
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
writing attention stories
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. Nigel Kneale
writing fiction saws
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
writing rooms feels
Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write. Nicole Appleton
writing unique past
I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters. Nicole Holofcener
writing unique thinking
I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone, everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same and everyone is unique.
writing awakening impossible
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. Nicole Krauss
writing thinking choices
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.
writing thinking giving
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.
writing watches sometimes
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
writing thinking musical
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.
writing thinking long
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.