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The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he's the smartest person that I've ever worked for. So let Vanity Fair write about that, I honestly don't care. He has intuition, he has judgement and he has a temperament in a way that I have never seen.Collection: Writing
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.Collection: Writing
The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.Collection: Writing
I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.Collection: Writing
I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.Collection: Writing
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.Collection: Writing
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.Collection: Writing
There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion would hardly surprise anyone. I think there's evidence to suggest that it's even narrower - the great majority of friends of Ivy Leaguers, for instance, are Ivy Leaguers. This narrows the pool of people who can write fiction cutting across class boundaries that's informed by their own personal experience.Collection: Writing
I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in problem solving. Every act of discovery in writing involves a process of figuring out why I'm not seeing what I need to see. Niggling feelings, discomforts, a sense that you've forgotten or overlooked something, a sudden curiosity about what if here? - these are priceless. They are the bases of problems and lead the way.Collection: Writing
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.Collection: Writing
For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.Collection: Writing
Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.Collection: Writing
In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.Collection: Writing
Improvise. Write your own damn story.Collection: Writing
Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows their vision. This is cool, and as you know I have been part of a few amazing bands that did this and I am not complaining.Collection: Writing
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I'm terrible at writing overtly political poems.Collection: Writing
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!Collection: Writing
The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.Collection: Writing
I read Write More, Sell More a few years ago and loved it.Collection: Writing
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!Collection: Writing
We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.Collection: Writing
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.Collection: Writing
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.Collection: Writing
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.Collection: Writing
Try not to write the parts that people skip.Collection: Writing
Using adverbs is a mortal sin.Collection: Writing
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.Collection: Writing
None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.Collection: Writing
I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.Collection: Writing
At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.Collection: Writing
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.Collection: Writing
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.Collection: Writing
My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.Collection: Writing
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.Collection: Writing
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.Collection: Writing
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.Collection: Writing
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.Collection: Writing
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Collection: Writing
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.Collection: Writing
Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.Collection: Writing
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.Collection: Writing
My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.Collection: Writing
It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.Collection: Writing
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.Collection: Writing
With my friends, it was always essentially true stories. That's how I always felt about doing King-Cat. This is something that really happened, whether it makes me look good or bad, or someone else look good or bad. This is what happened, and it's my job in life to write it down. Nowadays, I'm a lot more conscientious about it. I'm not out to attack somebody in print.Collection: Writing
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.Collection: Writing
No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion that spirals into the fight was such a cool scene. I knew I was gonna film it in Iceland and I did a lot of - I really scouted and climbed around Iceland to find those locations and I just couldn't wait to do that.Collection: Writing
When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.Collection: Writing
Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of have to just set everything else aside - it's like suddenly getting a temp job that requires you to work 16-hour days. Also just aesthetically, you have to completely leave all of your ego out of it.Collection: Writing