#writing

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#apart #been #could #directing #few

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#food

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#certainly #consuming #i #involved #making

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#done #handwriting #i #i think #like

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#couples #great #i #impossible #lot

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#i #ideas #into #journal #just

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. ↗

— Anita Desai

#i #own #rigidly #story #structure

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. ↗

— William Devane

#asked #fix #getting #hard #i

For me, writing something down was the only road out. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#me #only #out #road #something