#writing

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#family #few #films #lot #solid

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#best #ever #had #hard #hard work

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story. ↗

— Jane Campion

#being #birth #directors #gave #going

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. ↗

— Jerry Cantrell

#during #experience #food #four #hell

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. ↗

— Truman Capote

#does #fine #just #knowing #laws

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ↗

— Truman Capote

#art #bad #being #between #came

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#going #hour #hours #how #last

Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred and disappointment and regret. Intangible love and uncolored hatred and heartbreaking disappointments and abysmal regrets. Write about the seven deadly sins, about stealth and murder and gluttony and greed. Don’t forget to write about saints and sinners all the same. Write the poor and the rich using the same words, make them equal for once. Write about mothers who lost their children, about those who never had to lose; I challenge you to tell me which hurts more. Write about darkness and light, about light in the dark and darkness in the light. Remember to write about lost friendships, about those who never found a shoulder when life shut its lights dim, or those who kept the secret to their sadness within. Be fair to them too. Remind the world of those who always had someone to love but not someone to love them back, craft their nights and dreams carefully. Don’t forget the writers, who keep promises with words and silence. Be subtle. Be warm. Remember heartbeats and heartbreaks. Remember everything, remember all, equally. And then let the world remind you: Words will never be fair to whatever you write. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#dreams #friendship #life #love #writing

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#comfortable #feel #grow #heal #i

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. ↗

— Tom Felton

#directing #film #film industry #i #industry