Writing Quotes - Page 667

One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There are women in history throughout the world that need to be portrayed. Women don't stop being interesting at 20, they get more interesting and more fascinating and people are going to have to write about them. We're undeniable.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.