Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

Melissa Rosenberg

• Writing
• Eating
• Uncomfortable
• Pushing
• Sandwiches

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• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • American
  • Eating

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • Gym
  • I Believe

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Actor

• You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Voice

• Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writing
  • High
  • Drama

• Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Easy

• Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Power

• After struggling for so long in the industry and writing so many failed songs and hearing 'no' for so long - I'm so grateful every time I hear a song that I was a part of on the radio.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.

  

  Bjork
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Song

• The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Writing
  • Solitude

• Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Perfect
  • Matter
  • Impossible

• I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

  

  Neko Case
  • Christian
  • Moral

• You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Question

• It's a great time for independent media because technology reduces the entry barrier. It makes it a phenomenal time for media in general. It's David versus Goliath, and David is always a little smarter, more nimble, more fast.

  

  Sasa Vucinic
  • Technology
  • Media
  • Barrier

• When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

  

  Melissa Rosenberg
  • Writing
  • Eating
  • Uncomfortable