“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.” FeelsWritingPersonsTwoShowsWonderfulFiguresMastersHistoricalServingTrickyArcsHistorical FigureTwo Masters Author:Vincent Piazza
“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” WorldGivingWritingHeartLittlesLightBlackFiguresBlowShockingPrettiestShocking Things Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.” WritingTryingHardMightNovelFiguresConsciousMadDevicesCompelling Author:Sarah Waters
“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.” WritingKindTogetherLiteratureFictionFiguresFootballPlanetsConversationWineScience FictionSatHotelBottlesGet TogetherFiction WritersBalconiesBottles Of WineBlowing Up Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.” WritingLongVoiceClassFiguresLong TimeFormal Author:Sara Zarr
“I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.” KnowsWritingKindGuySongFiguresNormalMelancholyDepressingReally Depressing Author:Townes Van Zandt
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.” WritingHumansLooksStillsUseProblemRealizingFiguresSpeechSymbolsAliensHuman LifeStaringComplexityHauntingUneasyFigures Of SpeechComplexity Of Human Book:The Educated Imagination Source: The Educated Imagination
“I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.” KnowsWantWritingCharacterAbleFiguresSceneHiring Author:Stephen Sommers
“There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.” PeopleWritingPersonsFactsNamesEventsFiguresSourceBibleHistoricalThirtyFiftyDozenTestamentEightyNew TestamentAccuracyOld TestamentVerifyHistorical FigureHistorical Accuracy Author:Charlie Campbell
“I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.” WritingYearsJobsSongFiguresQuittingFull Time Jobs Author:Tom Lehrer