Writing Quotes

• Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Beginning

• That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Freedom

• I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

  

  Mitch Glazer
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Career

• It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Work
  • Music
  • Words

• Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.

  

  Miller Williams
  • Mystery
  • Mysterious
  • Drunk

• When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Feels
  • Persons
  • Critics

• For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

  

  William Dalrymple
  • Writing
  • Travel
  • Hands

• Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

  

  Andrew McAleer
  • Writing
  • Artist
  • Satisfied

• The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

  Etel Adnan
  • Writing
  • Books
  • Build

• Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

  

  Joshua Prager
  • Writing
  • Sense
  • Helped

• I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Years

• I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Students

• I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • I Think

• What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Lonely
  • Profession

• Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Panic

• My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the cover. Basically, it meant historical romance. It was not respectable as a genre.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Book
  • Novel
  • Romance

• Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Revolution
  • Novel
  • Historical

• My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Mother
  • Dark
  • Imagination

• There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Community
  • Scary

• Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Book
  • Running
  • Fit

• I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Office
  • Three
  • Months

• Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

  

  Alice Notley
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • To Be

• When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Contribution
  • Testimony
  • Competence

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