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"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.Collection: Writing
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.Collection: Writing
My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.Collection: Writing
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.Collection: Writing
When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.Collection: Writing
What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing. In the moral dialogue you want to start, you really want to involve the leaders. People ask me: "Why were you so bold as to publish A Man of the People? How did you think the Government was going to take it? You didn't know there was going to be a coup?" I said rather flippantly that nobody was going to read it anyway, so I wasn't likely to be fired from my official position. It's a distressing thought that we cannot engage our leaders in the kind of moral debate we need.Collection: Writing
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.Collection: Writing
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.Collection: Writing
I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there.Collection: Writing
I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.Collection: Writing
I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock and six hours have gone by and you're, like, "Whoa! What the hell just happened?" And that piece ends up in the final product even though the final product is three years away. It doesn't get rewritten. It came out the right way. But that's happened to me so few times in my life.Collection: Writing
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.Collection: Writing
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.Collection: Writing
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.Collection: Writing
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.Collection: Writing
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.Collection: Writing
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.Collection: Writing
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.Collection: Writing
The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in charge of day-to-day operations. Whereas "producer" is often just a writing credit.Collection: Writing
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."Collection: Writing
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.Collection: Writing
Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.Collection: Writing
In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.Collection: Writing
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.Collection: Writing
You have to stop living in order to write.Collection: Writing
I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.Collection: Writing
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.Collection: Writing
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.Collection: Writing
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.Collection: Writing
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.Collection: Writing
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.Collection: Writing
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.Collection: Writing
I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No!Collection: Writing
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.Collection: Writing
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.Collection: Writing
Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.Collection: Writing
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.Collection: Writing
I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.Collection: Writing
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.Collection: Writing
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.Collection: Writing
When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on itCollection: Writing
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.Collection: Writing
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.Collection: Writing
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.Collection: Writing
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.Collection: Writing
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.Collection: Writing
I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything going on in their lives, like whether they found a parking spot or what they ate for breakfast." "But why?" Josh asks.Collection: Writing
Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.Collection: Writing
In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.Collection: Writing