“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingRealWholeSeemsLike YouPressureTricks Author:David O. Russell
“In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.” WritingEndsLike YouCriticsNot Afraid Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again” IfsWritingTodayHouseWhiteLike YouWhite HouseYou Again Author:Ron Suskind
“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.” NeedsFeelsWritingTryingI CanThreeHoursWeekTheoryLike YouDistractionDefenceProcrastinatingSpades Author:Markus Zusak
“Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.” PeopleIfsWantWritingLevelsLaughingLike YouSmartJokesDialogueMake Someone Laugh Author:Lizz Winstead
“When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean?” KnowsWritingMeanBookBigsStudentsTaughtLike YouReaderI Realized Author:David Sedaris
“If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."” IfsWritingBelieveSelfLike YouLettersIf I CouldTeenage Author:Antony Sher
“It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.” IfsThinkingWritingKindHardLike YouEasierBandNegativeCriticsReviewsArticles Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.” IfsKnowsWantWritingMeanFilmStuffTelevisionLike YouRight NowLateIndependent80sDetectivesRenaissanceIndependent FilmFargo Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.” KnowsFeelsWritingSometimesAgeDiesCryLike YouBabyDown AndLaysLifts Author:Van Morrison