Quotes by Writing I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. Aldous Huxley my-thoughtssecond-thoughtswriting he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular Aldous Huxley effortunsuccessfulwriting I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. Aldous Huxley hurtwritingthinking I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. Aldous Huxley businesswritingmean It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley sentimentsnovelwriting I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate. Aldous Huxley writingbelievethinking In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. Aldous Huxley writingbookreality Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers. Aldous Huxley personsmindwriting I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example. Aldous Huxley writingwindbelieve Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket! Alec Baldwin writingrunningjobs There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time. Alec Baldwin letterswritingpeople The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. Aleister Crowley modelsold-testamentwriting Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will. Aleister Crowley writingmenthinking There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. Aleister Crowley halfwritingenemy All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself Aleister Crowley appealslawwriting I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it. Alejandra Deheza selfwritingsong I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu storiesexercisewriting One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu latinwritingcountry My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write. Alejandro Jodorowsky everydaywritingyears I don't see myself as a movie maker only. When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live. I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky writingopportunitybook«2526272829303132333435»
