Esther Freud Quotes

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Esther Freud

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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• 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

• Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Me
  • Matter

• I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Army

• The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Think

• It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • World
  • English

• No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Forever
  • Matter
  • Prosecutor

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Thoughts

• You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Running

• I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.

  

  Carmine Coppola
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Fun

• I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

  

  Amy Ray
  • Different
  • Writing

• Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.

  

  Om Malik
  • Good
  • Writing

• I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• Every now and again, a script comes along that you just can't put down, and 'Deep State' is exactly that - a great example of the best kind of writing.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Deep

• What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And then, if I say yes, I read it again, only this time I take a pen and, inside the book, I say, "Okay, this is a scene. I don't need this. I'm going to try this. I'm not going to take this." And then, I use that book like a bible and each chapter heading, I write a menu of what's in that chapter, in case I ever need to reference it. And then, I start to outline and write it. I get in there and it starts to evolve, based on having re-read it again.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Evolve

• My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Word
  • Sunday

• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Sure

• Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

  

  Esther Freud
  • Writing
  • Matter
  • Kitchen