It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
While 'Twilight''s popularity was undeniable among both the teenagers they were aimed at and middle-aged women who flocked to the series in droves, Meyer has drawn her share of criticism for her writing. Some feminist critics assailed what they saw as Bella's mooning over her vampire lover.
I like Rebecca Miller and her writing. She's a tremendous writer and director.
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
