Quotes by Writing I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step. Brenton Thwaites focuswritingart When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. Brené Brown denystorieswriting Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. Bret Easton Ellis life-is-likeerrorswriting Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me. Bret Easton Ellis dedicationskillswriting There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me. Bret Easton Ellis wantwritingbook No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. Bret Easton Ellis feelingswritingjoy If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically. Bret Easton Ellis writingbookthinking Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Bret Easton Ellis actingdrinkingwriting You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you Bret Easton Ellis work-outwritingthinking You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it. Bret Easton Ellis hobbiescriticismwriting I don't know why I write what I write. Bret Easton Ellis knowswriting I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium. Bret Easton Ellis writingbookthinking You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future. Bret Easton Ellis writingbookpast Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years. Bret Easton Ellis writingtwoyears I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is. Bret Easton Ellis issueswritingdirectors I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period. Bret Easton Ellis painwritingbook I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity. Bret Easton Ellis creativitywritingmean Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful! Bret Harte successfulteachingwriting Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England. Bret Harte togetherletterswriting Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. Bret Lott eccentricquestswriting«171172173174175176177178179180181»
