Quotes by category:Writing

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing a... by Alessandro Nivola

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

Alessandro Nivola

hard film writing

I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place.

down-and writing ideas

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

destiny over-you writing

The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always going to be better suited for you. You're always going to know the lines faster, because you wrote it. The writing is so very hard. It's the hardest part of the whole process. In some ways the acting is a lot easier and a lot more fun.

acting writing fun

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

target-audience writing character

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

views writing men

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

expression writing song

For poets that have had my luck, by Alex Comfort

For poets that have had my luck,

kissing luck writing

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

conservative language writing

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. by Alex D. Linz

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a song about it, I'll either need to transform that anger into something positive, or I'll just need to throw the song away. Because eventually, I'm going to want to transcend that pain and that anger.

pain writing song

[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

voice writing ideas

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at lea... by Alex Flinn

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

use writing fun

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

stars ambition writing

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to... by Alex Flinn

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

contemporary-fiction want writing

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

taken writing book

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

acting together writing

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

stories writing ideas

Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.

self writing people

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

diaries mistake writing