Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
