Writing Quotes
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Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.
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Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!
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When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.
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No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.
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Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
