Writing Quotes - Page 722

Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I think doing different stuff makes you better at other stuff: Acting makes you better at stand-up, which makes you better at writing.

I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.

I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.