Quotes about writing
writing gone lines
Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone. Ingmar Bergman
writing skeletons flesh
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
writing stories littles
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
writing novel
I write novels and other things. Jack L. Chalker
writing views people
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas. Jack Kirby
writing goal mind
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step. Jack Canfield
writing thinking ideas
Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'
writing heard euphemism
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. J. D. Salinger
writing years long
Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot. J. J. Abrams
writing play drawing
I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.
writing long guy
I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
writing world want
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. J. G. Ballard
writing thinking contentment
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
writing thinking frustrated
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
writing successful soul
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
writing pleasure publishing
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
writing want pleasure
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
writing men thinking
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
writing important tomorrow
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Ivy Lee
writing choices kind
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. Ivy Compton-Burnett
writing novelists originals
The most original novelist now writing in English.
writing play needs
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. Israel Horovitz
writing play stories
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
writing people age
There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. Israel Zangwill
writing immensity
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible Italo Calvino
writing cities people
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.
writing wells ifs
How well I would write if I were not here!
writing men great-work
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. Isadora Duncan
writing should-have matter
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
writing night pennies
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night. Irving Wallace
writing one-word
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. Irving Thalberg
writing people important
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.
writing editors talking
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. Irwin Shaw