Quotes by Writing It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him. Carson McCullers differentfeelingswriting I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers aquariumslonelinesswriting This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it. Carson McCullers tennesseedoewriting Writing, for me, is a search for God. Carson McCullers writing The writer must hew the phantom rock. Carson McCullers phantomsrockswriting Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. Carson McCullers passionwritinglove-is I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. Carter Burwell enjoywritingdirectors I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever. Cary Ann Hearst writingsongideas I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun. Cary Elwes catharticwritingfun When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get your vision, but it's hard to imagine even this process... sitting here nine months later talking about the film and talking about it 20 times in one day. You don't even think about the part where you come to the set every morning and everyone's looking at you to see your mood in order to see what the day is going to be like, and the influence that you wield. Cary Fukunaga writingmorningthinking I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14. Cary Fukunaga storieswritingfirsts I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is. Cary Fukunaga painfulwritingthinking I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. Cary Grant self-helpself-improvementwriting I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else. Cary Grant nazispywriting To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone. Cary Grant writingpeopleworld I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa brainwritingcharacter There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now. Caryl Churchill playwritingpeople A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader. Caryl Phillips readingwritingcharacter From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer. Caryl Phillips readinghomewriting I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. Caryl Rivers chairstypewriterswriting«202203204205206207208209210211212»
