#writing

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#area #been #coast #column #country

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help. ↗

— Bono

#doing #help #know #really #seem

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#case #drinker #friend #job #lonely

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #gut #heart #lost #makes

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#chance #channels #cut #every #every time

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#because #been #checking #could #deported

I've loved doing "E.R." for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#get #great #great people #i #loved

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. ↗

— Fred Frith

#been #business #gravity #me #more

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#always #i #i always #just #knew

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#comes #ideas #just #moments #notes