Quote of the day: (You know... several...) I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I dont have that. I have parents who I care about what they think. Mindy Kaling If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. Tina Fey You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when were doing it. Neil Gaiman Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. Roger Rosenblatt Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. Thats what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters. Tatiana Maslany Ive always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all youve got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isnt supposed to be easy. Henry Rollins Most people dont see whats going on around them. Thats my principal message to writers: For Gods sake, keep your eyes open. Notice whats going on around you. William S. Burroughs There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Robert A. Heinlein But with writers, theres nothing wrong with melancholy. Its an important color in writing. Paul McCartney What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - thats magical. Mos Def I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Dont use the gibberish of the standards writers. Jonathan Kozol Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories. Daniel Keys Moran If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. V. S. Naipaul Yeah, writers do hate writing. Philip Seymour Hoffman The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is dont do it unless youre willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. Jim Harrison The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. Jeffrey Eugenides Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. James Wolcott Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, Aha, here is the story. Ayelet Waldman Thats all, folks! (Sent late in the afternoon from my writing desk where Ive been... writing...)
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:27:10 +0000
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