#writing

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#again #analytical #began #community #connecting

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#cohesive #did #disparate #even #form

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#book #dull #enjoy #generally #histories

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. ↗

— H. C. Bunner

#lived #note #quote #shakespeare #things

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #going #i #i think #screenwriting

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#assertion #chief #coming #does #failed

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. ↗

— Michael Caine

#comedy #dramas #every #get #got

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. ↗

— John Cale

#been #going #i #many #movie