Quotes by Writing I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward. Alber Elbaz playwritingthinking I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press. Albert Belle chicagomediawriting If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it. Albert Brooks magicwantwriting I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies. Albert Brooks rainwritingnight If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won. Albert Brooks mosaicsbrainwriting You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly. Albert Brooks comedywritingdirectors In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I loved the writing, I loved the making of it. Because I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one. So the next one was always, "how am I going to do this?" And that thing was sort of always the thing that made me a little chickenshit to go into the next one. The writing of it was great and the making of it was great, but how am I going to release this thing and am I going to find a studio? Albert Brooks toughcreativewriting Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself. Albert Camus experience-yourselfwallwriting The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus purposewritingcivilization Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. Albert Camus philosophernovelistswriting Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening. Albert Camus geniuswritingneeds We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so. Albert Camus miserycommonwriting Those who write clearly have readers. Albert Camus writers-and-writingreaderwriting The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression. Albert Camus writinglyingcommitment A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. Albert Camus writingmaycharacter I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am. Albert Camus strongerwritingneeds It is immoral not to tell. Albert Camus immoralwriting A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it. Albert Camus sufferingwritingtoday To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Albert Camus disinterestwritingart There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. Albert Einstein readingwritingbook«2223242526272829303132»
