Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Bruce Vilanch

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

Life

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

William Landay

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

William Lashner

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

William H. Macy

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. W...

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Todd Phillips

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

E. L. Doctorow

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

Valerie June

Mastrionotti: What do you do, Fink? Barton: I write. Deutsch: Oh yeah? What kind of write? Barton: Well, as a matter of fact I write for the pictures. Mastrionotti: Big fuckin' deal. Deutsch: You want my partner to kiss your ass? Mastrionotti: Would ...

Barton Fink

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

Marc Cherry

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

Glenn Close

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

Beth Henley

I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind.

Love

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dre...

Clive Cussler

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think tha...

Joyce Carol Oates

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

Steven Pinker

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I...

Evan Glodell