Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
The idea of using actual clippings came about as a way of characterizing Gold. Gold uses clippings because he hates doing research and is not even really interested in the books and articles he writes.
Just because a musician writes a great album doesn’t mean they don’t want to continue writing great music.
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing ‘I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,’ was C.S. Lewis and the ‘Narnia’ books.
In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, ‘We make great albums and write great albums – but don’t be under the impression I’m going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.’ The lyrics weren’t going to be focused politically.
I’m the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.
Comedy comes out of everyone’s worst day. No one writes a sitcom episode about everyone having a good day. It’s always about someone being locked out of their house or someone being dumped or whatever.
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It’s disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there’s something visceral about opening a letter – I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn’t an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book ‘On Writing’ before I read pretty much any of his fiction.
I just love the fact that Sylvester Stallone is a multi-hyphenate. He acts, he writes, he produces, he directs. I always respected that guy, especially with ‘The Expendables’ franchise, which is very much the type of movie that my dad and I loved when I was a kid.
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
It’s true and it’s easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
It’s become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we’re listening.
It’s still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
I’m not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I’m all about feeling. Once there’s a theme, I can’t not write.
Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‘Ride Along,’ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.
Every team writes its own story.
Where’s the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I’m not about to do that.
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
I’ve covered so much Tom Waits. He’s one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
I have an English identity and a French identity. When I’m in France, I’m more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.
I’m not an advocate of true rhymes, I don’t think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that’s the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it’s important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
One of the artists I most admire is David Lee Roth. I think his combination of humor, glamour, sex and energy is one of the best there is. He also writes great songs.
I definitely don’t Google myself, because I get paparazzi’d every day. You’re bound to have something happen and someone mean writes something. There’s no power. You don’t know who they are, and they’re behind the computer. Just don’t read it.
Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody’s going to like it. I felt like that kind of grew me up a little bit into a professional. I was a student filmmaker, and no one writes reviews about student films.
I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
No one writes as slowly as I do, I’m convinced. It’s so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail’s pace.
I think it’s a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it’s literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it’s romance, or a beach book – in short, it’s something unworthy of a serious critic’s attention.
It’s problematic being an Arab who writes in Hebrew.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
No one writes about the emotional things you go through.
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We’ve done all that.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn’t get paid.
Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She’s got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
I think ‘The Musketeers’ is probably the Dumas novel people are most familiar with, or if not that, it’s ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’. I’ve always been a big fan of Dumas because, on the one hand, he writes a lot about revenge, but he also writes about the cost of it to the revenger – I’d always had an interest in that.
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Our industry often writes an actress off after she gets married. I gave hits before getting married, after getting married, after having my first child, after having my second child and continue to do so.
I don’t even know how to define myself. I’m a person who writes. It’s something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
For me it’s also – the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it’s completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I’ve read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
I’m always amused when the ‘New York Times’ writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, ‘This is the way Republicans can save themselves.’ Look, the ‘New York Times’ disagrees with us. They’re entitled to disagree with us, but it’s not like we should take their advice.
Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn’t that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.
I don’t read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn’t like a movie, I can’t keep his criticisms in mind the next time I am making a film. Even if someone writes a great review about my film, I don’t want to be affected by it.
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.
