#rite

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#absolute #against #characters #enough #i

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#everything #i #just #room #said

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carved #i #myself #out #really

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' ↗

— Tori Amos

#loud #saying #too #turn #up

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#choreographer #collaborative #director #everyone #everything

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#anything #around #balcony #blowing #bottle

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#could #first #pick #story #up

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#approach #change #decision #designing #director