Quotes by Writing Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it! Alex Kapranos writingpeopleideas I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. Alex Kapranos criticsauthoritywriting Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry. Alex Karpovsky bostonnew-yorkwriting I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part of me just identifies with them. It's my messed up internal nature that I always feel like an outsider. It's just my nature. At film festivals, I was an outsider for sure, but I always felt like one as well. I have that feeling at parties, too. I don't belong there. Alex Kotlowitz partywritingpeople As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs. Alex Kurtzman emotionalwritingcharacter Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility. Alex Lemon doewritingneeds I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. Alex Lemon prosechallengeswriting Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life. Alex Lemon mortalitywriting I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. Alex North recyclingwritingpeople I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet. Alex O'Loughlin not-good-enoughlevelswriting I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing. Alex Parks singingfamewriting There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him. Alex Stapleton should-havewritingschool Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences. Alex Tabarrok differencesstrongwriting I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier. Alex Timbers playwritingthinking There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult. Alex Turner crackswritingsong Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries. Alex Turner waitingwritingsong Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece. Alex Turner perfectionwritingsong I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others. Alex Turner togetherwritingsong At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream. Alexa Chung fashiondreamwriting Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. Alexander Borodin funny-lovecareerswriting«3031323334353637383940»
