Quotes by Writing I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem. Amy Lowell arrivingpoetrywriting Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. Amy Lowell cancerprogresswriting The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Amy Poehler truth-isboringwriting A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own. Amy Poehler tragedybrainwriting If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition. Amy Poehler down-andwritingcharacter When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is. Amy Poehler eyerealwriting I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. Amy Poehler tiredmirrorswriting I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways. Amy Ray girlwritingthinking When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break. Amy Ray couplewritingyears I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline. Amy Ray playwritingbook Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo. Amy Schumer cancerwritingchildren Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you? Amy Sedaris sillywritingbook I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. Amy Sedaris sitting-downfeetwriting I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I just like dressing up and pretending to be other people. Amy Sedaris dressing-upwritingmean You have to live your story before being able to write your story. Amy Shearn ablestorieswriting I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind. Amy Sherman-Palladino mindwritingtrying Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave. Amy Sherman-Palladino sadnesscoffeewriting With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard. Amy Sherman-Palladino up-earlywritingfun When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices. Amy Sherman-Palladino writingjobscharacter It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it. Amy Sherman-Palladino work-outwritingfriendly«5253545556575859606162»
