Writing Quotes - Page 679

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

We write to know we are not alone

The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.