Writing Quotes
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The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
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My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
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My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.
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I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.
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I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
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Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.
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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
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So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
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I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.
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I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.
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I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.
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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
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When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?
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It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
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When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.
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'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie - from the director to the writing the cast.
