#writ

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. ↗

— David Duchovny

#like #poem #really #say #trying

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#anything #doing #experienced #field #job

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. ↗

— David Duchovny

#actor #feel #granted #hard #i

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#better #harder #play #really #service

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #myself #nature #never #sort

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#had #i #plays #poems #started

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#ball #cultural #feel #forward #honest

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#being #brain #director #eating #experts

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect