#writing

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. ↗

— Keith Urban

#collected #collecting #costly #get #had

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#actually #creative #good #i #i can

I do a lot of screen re-writing. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#i do #lot #re-writing #screen

The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and I asked the teacher if I could rewrite it for our class to present. Nothing like going head-to-head with the Bard, right? I can still visualise the pages I filled creating this first "great" literary endeavor. Encouraged by teachers (and one doting grandmother), I went on to write reams of yearbook copy in high school and college and, then, to teach high school English. My "real" writing career didn't begin until I turned from education to the full-time pursuit of storytelling. ↗

— Laura Abbot

#education

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#education

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever? ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#day #ever #every #get #greatest

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#dialogue #i #story #structure #terrible

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#his #however #man #moment #paper

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to. ↗

— Robert Caro

#generally #hours #i #i quit #late

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled. ↗

— Robert Caro

#bad #bed #been #coming #day