#writing

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#decipher #defies #expectation #fill #hope

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#apologize #because #big #button #comedy

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#believe #comedy #confidence #having #men

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#fast #fiction #moves #ours #science

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#already #annoyed #bit #feel #i

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#because #could #deal #different #discover

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#authors #body #building #clear #extending

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development. ↗

— Johann Most

#deed #development #every #more #point

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#feature film #film #finished #go #going

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#essay #got #had #high #high school