"If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write."
– Somerset Maugham
Showing posts with label quote of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote of the day. Show all posts
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Quote of the Day: Tax Time Edition
"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."
– William Saroyan
– William Saroyan
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Quote of the Day
Found on the back of Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories.
"The best of my work, as well as the impulse to work, was a gift from the man in the overstuffed chair, and now I feel a very deep kinship to him. I almost feel as if I am sitting in the overstuffed chair where he sat, exiled from those I should love and those that ought to love me. For love I make characters in plays. To the world I give suspicion and resentment, mostly. I am not cold. I am never deliberately cruel. But after my morning's work, I have little to give but indifference to people. I try to excuse myself with the pretense that my work justifies this lack of caring much for anything else. Sometimes I crack through the emotional block. I touch, I embrace, I hold tight to a necessary companion. But the breakthrough is not long lasting. Morning returns and only work matters again."
-- Tennessee Williams, "The Man in the Overstuffed Chair"
"The best of my work, as well as the impulse to work, was a gift from the man in the overstuffed chair, and now I feel a very deep kinship to him. I almost feel as if I am sitting in the overstuffed chair where he sat, exiled from those I should love and those that ought to love me. For love I make characters in plays. To the world I give suspicion and resentment, mostly. I am not cold. I am never deliberately cruel. But after my morning's work, I have little to give but indifference to people. I try to excuse myself with the pretense that my work justifies this lack of caring much for anything else. Sometimes I crack through the emotional block. I touch, I embrace, I hold tight to a necessary companion. But the breakthrough is not long lasting. Morning returns and only work matters again."
-- Tennessee Williams, "The Man in the Overstuffed Chair"
Friday, December 28, 2007
Quote of the Day: Depressing Edition
From CS Weekly..
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
– Peter De Vries
"Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
– Peter De Vries
"Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Quote of the Day
"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand."
– Chinese proverb
By the way, I'm more than open to input about what you'd like this blog to be about. I initially conceived it as a nuts-and-bolts screenwriting workshop, but I definitely have a tendency to range free. There seems to be a small but steady audience out there, and I'd love your input.
I've added a search engine at the bottom of the sidebar. It helps you find scripts on the web. The formatting looks funky, but it seems to work well.
– Chinese proverb
By the way, I'm more than open to input about what you'd like this blog to be about. I initially conceived it as a nuts-and-bolts screenwriting workshop, but I definitely have a tendency to range free. There seems to be a small but steady audience out there, and I'd love your input.
I've added a search engine at the bottom of the sidebar. It helps you find scripts on the web. The formatting looks funky, but it seems to work well.
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