Rian Johnson Quotes

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

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• Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Like
  • More

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Back

• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Pages

• When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Style

• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Writing

• We only had a couple of ways for people to hate us on 'X-Files,' including still writing actual fan letters. Now people can instantly tell you, 'Oh my God, I love you,' or 'Oh my God, you are the worst person on the planet.' They actually had to hate you enough or love you enough to write a letter, put a stamp on it and send it.

  

  Jeffrey Bell
  • People
  • God
  • Writing

• It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Writing

• My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Car

• I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

  

  Alison Weir
  • People
  • Writing
  • History

• That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Good
  • Writing

• I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Writing
  • Home
  • House

• My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Writing
  • Mother

• When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I can do anything I set my mind to if I believe and am realistic.

  

  Aleks Paunovic
  • Believe
  • I Can
  • Realistic

• Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.

  

  David Cohen
  • Community
  • Magic

• I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.

  

  Colm Feore
  • Help

• You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Writing
  • Desperate