Quotes by Writing I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It's exciting and somewhat daunting. You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together - all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It's as if I've turned into summer itself. Ada Limon summer writing book Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy. Adam Anderson pain writing past The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell. Adam Braver college writing country If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world - even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate - I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it's not on a geopolitical level. Adam Braver self writing thinking In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people. Adam Braver writing book thinking I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet. Adam Brody done writing movie-love It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. Adam Brody written acting writing That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you. Adam Carolla dream writing sports I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. Adam Clymer would-be writing littles Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. Adam Clymer writing morning book For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it. Adam Croasdell going-for-it writing character Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is best for them. Luckily, I come from both a writing background - with 'Workaholics' - and I also act in what I've written. Adam DeVine comedy writing I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that. Adam Driver branches writing running You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it. Adam Duritz stuff writing world I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. Adam Duritz writing firsts thinking You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel. Adam Duritz how-you-feel writing feels I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. Adam Faith sunday writing years I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Adam Gopnik speak writing thinking In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way. Adam Gopnik eye heart writing Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense. Adam Gopnik practice writing thinking «4567891011121314»