Writing Quotes
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If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.
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Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
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We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.
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The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
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Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
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I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
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I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
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A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.
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I think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
