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Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
Always Quotes
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
Book Quotes
The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Good Quotes
We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story lead you to discovering who the character is in a natural way.
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the...
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Like Quotes
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.
Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.
Love Quotes
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Me Quotes
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.
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I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Music Quotes
You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
People Quotes
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
Think Quotes
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
Time Quotes
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
You Quotes
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of...
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed,...
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.
When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I...
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would...
I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio...
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people...
Definitely, I did not, after 'SNL,' say, 'OK, first I'll go be in Alexander Payne's movie.' I thought I might go back to writing, to be honest.
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.
I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't...
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.
Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.
I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we...
I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in...
I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of...
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to...
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