“When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.” WritingBookFictionKnownFantasyMagicFeetScience FictionLogical Author:Brandon Sanderson
“I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.” PeopleWritingEmotionPathFeetOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleDescribingStandpointFeet On The Ground Author:Mo Yan
“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.” ThinkingKnowsGivingWritingBookAbleLanguageAnswersWalksStepsClassTroubleFeetGive MeMagazinesCoachingYarnCentipedes Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.” WritingLongBookFallWishWalksNiceFeetRight NowQuietRadioSnowIslandsLazyBeing NiceLong IslandLong WalksSnow Falling Author:Jack Kerouac
“If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.” PeopleIfsWritingWeekFeetMojo Author:William Hague
“My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.” PeopleWritingMatterFourFeetDadNo Matter WhatMy DadDo It Yourself Author:Tiger Woods
“That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.” GivingWritingStillsFeelingsHeardFeetQuietInk Author:Tarryn Fisher
“A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.” IfsWritingWellsSilenceFireFeetPrisonLakesCabinsLog Cabins Author:Louis Auchincloss
“Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.” IfsWritingPersonsI CanSometimesAbleNovelFourFeetProduceChairsStableBalanced Author:Jose Saramago
“If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.” IfsWritingWould BeFeetThousandOceanDown AndInspiredBe InspiredSubmarines Author:Sylvia Earle
“Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.” IfsKnowsMenWritingLongFacesOpportunityFeetColdChickensCowardPreparingBettingCold Feet Author:B. C. Forbes
“From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.” WritingKnowingFeetCenturyTwentiesDustQueensDrySandBuriedContemplatingFleetingInkPyramidsEgyptianFleeting Life Author:Rachel
“The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.” WayWritingCharacterTalkingFeetFronts Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.” WritingMightKidsMotherFeetDangerMomDadHusbandDaughterCrisisManagersSoccerFundConspiracyRescueThrillersAbout FamilyCover UpsSidelinesStraight UpHedge FundSoccer Mom Author:Andrew Gross
“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.” WritingChildrenPersonsHomeWantedMotherFatherVoiceHurtFeetUniqueBusyComing HomeBusDonutsDunkin Donuts Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.” FeelsWritingViewsCreativeNiceFeetNew YorkBedWindowTablesCoffeeCouchesSkylines Author:Gary Shteyngart
“There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one’s feet sends one to the page and a habit is born.” ThinkingWritingBornFeetChildhoodHabitPagesAssetsUsualTypicalShynessDrawbacksFluent Author:Lorrie Moore
“Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.” PeopleWritingTryingGuyRecordsFeetBrotherMeetingsNailsSolo Author:Sammy Hagar
“I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.” WritingRunningThreeSleepSpaceFeetDogBlastUnderwearThree Dog Author:Jonathan Evison
“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.” PeopleMenWritingYearsFirstsImportantRealizingForgetMillionsFeetHe ManBattleCostConscienceImportant ThingsGravesMagazinesChiefsHeatEditorsArticlesSlipsMaximsHustleBustle40th BirthdayBattle Of LifeHustle And BustleMagazine Editors Author:B. C. Forbes
“Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.” WritingEyeFireFeetMusicianEarsTonguePainterDancerPensTorchesQuills Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who would like to get them there. So I write books that Christians can give to their non-Christian friends that they will actually read.” PeopleGivingWritingBookChristianChurchFeetBridgesChristian Friends Author:Andy Andrews
“Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.” WritingLyingFeetGoes OnDrama Author:Julien Green
“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.” WritingYearsLooksPersonsLongTwoHandsAgeSongWaterWhiteWalksFireFeetHairHundredHotWinterOld AgeUselessOrganizedWheelsChairsNinetyAlcoholicsCornBeardWhiskeyVigorousBucketsOutcastBeveragesHot WaterWhite HairRibald Author:Don Marquis
“If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.” IfsWantNeedsWritingMadeTwoStoriesChoicesReadingNextWalksFictionSawsFeetThousandPicksContemporaryCraftsDullShort StoryImperfectConcreteNext TimeFloatingAbstractionFiction WritersTheoristsSyntaxScalpels Author:John McNally
“In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.” WritingMadeIdeasRoomsFeetSourceRootsCopiesVolumeDictionaryOxfordChalkboards Author:Neal Stephenson
“If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.” IfsMenWorldShouldWritingJobsBeautifulEnjoyRichFeetSeriousShould HaveLike MeSuitableI SmileFerrariFeet On The Ground Author:Mario Balotelli
“If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.” IfsFeelsWritingHas BeensAbleFeetDangerousPainfulExperimentsVoidAbyssSkirts Author:Hermann Hesse
“Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was going to co-star in it. We had a deal with Sony, we got paid to write it, and it was a musical, but it never got made because...I think Arnold kind of backed out at the last minute because he was getting cold feet because ;The Last Action Hero' had come out, where he was parodying himself. But it was a really funny script, and I wish it could've seen the light, because I think it would've done really well.” ThinkingWritingWellsKindMadeDoneLightActionLastsWishStarsDealsFeetMinutesColdHeroPaidMusicalScriptsDilemmaLast MinuteSchwarzeneggerSonyConanAction HeroesCold FeetConan O Brien Author:Kevin Nealon
“I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.” FeelsWritingKidsWantedPastSongInterestingFeetMarriedCovering Author:Kim Wilde
“I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."” IfsFeelsWritingStoriesRealityHappenedFeetCoreSecure Author:Sasa Stanisic
“As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."” PeopleWritingSaidEyeFeetCompareDescriptionSurreal Author:Devendra Banhart
“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.” PeopleKnowsWritingNovelWrittenSeeingFeetBillsFilledScreensProseScreenplaysBlueprintsAdaptingKill Bill Author:Quentin Tarantino
“If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But if I write, "I have taken so many drugs I can't see my feet," the tendency is to take that as a confession on the part of the poet. Maybe that doesn't matter. I'd almost prefer for it to be the other way round.” IfsWayWritingI CanMatterReasonTakenFeetPoetDrugRoundsTendenciesKicksConfessionPersonaDonkey Author:Matthea Harvey
“You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.” WritingRealRememberActorsActingFeetDirectorsHappeningsActing OutStaging Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.” KnowsWantWritingTwoGuyViewsKnow HowFocusFeetSixJokesAbsolutesPoint Of ViewTwo Guys Author:Brad Williams
“There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.” GivingShouldWritingPersonsMadeDoneSchoolFilmPiecesFeetFrontsLateShotsConnectionsDecidedShould HaveGive MeExcuseConvincedMagazinesEditorsArticlesBrooklynRogerFilm School Author:Alex Stapleton
“Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.” WritingFeetKnotsShoelaces Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingTryingDoneEnoughMightTermLinesToo MuchWrittenFeetJokesAddSticksScriptsFeel GoodShootingHere And ThereTossI Feel GoodLatitude Author:Kenneth Lonergan