Michael Arndt Quotes
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Michael Arndt
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
Kanye West
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor Swift
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
Patricia Briggs
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
Wangari Maathai
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.
Patrick Rothfuss
When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.
Zoe Foster Blake
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
V. S. Naipaul
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
M. John Harrison
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis
A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
Amish Tripathi
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton
I won't be here long, I am working as hard as I can, as I told you in a letter yesterday, I am very happy to be here Etretat, Normandy and I hope to come up with something good, in any case I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
Claude Monet
I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.
Christian Slater
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Michael Arndt
