Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?
No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.
Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.
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 is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all.
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].