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

• 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

• 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

• I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Good
  • Writing
  • College

• When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is seared in my brain forever.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Brain

• Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Kind

• Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Light
  • Matter

• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Sales

• I would love to work with my dad! We've never done anything live together. I'm always open to working with talented people, and I think my dad certainly qualifies.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• 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