Ellen Hunnicutt Quotes
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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You write about what you know.
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Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
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I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
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We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
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To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
