Andrew Lam Quotes

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

Andrew Lam

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Acting

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Decision

• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Composer
  • Satisfying

• But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Writing
  • Books
  • Create

• I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Thought

• I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Great
  • Writing
  • History

• 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

• If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stop

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

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Style

• Schiaparelli was almost like a pop artist. Even the first sweater had a naive visual impact. You immediately get it, and you love it or you hate it. There's nothing in between. But she had a proper upbringing, so she also understood about quality and luxury.

  

  Marco Zanini
  • She
  • Hate
  • Quality

• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Think
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

  

  Andrew Lam
  • Writing
  • Painting
  • Bit