“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.” PeopleThinkingWritingSelfEyeGrowsLossEffortPayWatchesWrittenHabitProtectConsciousPraiseInvestmentCriticalSubtleSelf ConsciousThrough The EyesDiffusion Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
“Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.” PeopleHas BeensShowsFeelingsEnjoyWatchesAudienceKnowingWrittenInvolved Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.” HumansStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmReadingWatchesAudienceWrittenComputerDialogueFilmmaker Author:Roger Ebert
“I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.” ThinkingWellsRealityWatchesWrittenTvsPureNewsEntertainmentNonsenseRubbishDallasWell WrittenMelodramaDross Author:Larry Hagman
“Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.” PeopleKnowsMatterShowsWatchesWrittenTvsMassCriticsCriticalBreadLive ByCablesWritten WordCritical MassBeing Authentic Author:Walton Goggins
“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.” MadeWatchesHistoryWrittenNewsAskingClayArchaeologistsSifting Book:A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 Source: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
“I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started going to watch battles and eventually thought to myself, "I'm definitely as good as some of these guys, and maybe even better than them".” GuyWatchesWrittenShareBattlePaperScaredRhyme Author:Doc Brown