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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.
Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.
In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
I'm always getting texts asking why I'm not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I'm like, 'It's not me. You're writing to some stranger.'
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative. But don't look too much into it.
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.