A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine, had stumbled like a first-grader over this single paragraph. A dozen times he had begun it and written into it...
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.
I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.
As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
