Part of being a writer is finding out how you write as opposed to anyone else.
– Daisy Johnson, Guardian August 2020.
Writer’s Moment – Doubt
Perhaps the single most powerful force working against you writing well is doubt
– Robert McKee.
Writer’s Moment – The Unread Library
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
– John Waters, Film-Maker, Writer.
Writer’s Moment – Exploration
Writing is a process in which you change your own mind, hopefully.
– Suzanne Moore, Columnist, in The Guardian (2017).
Writer’s Moment: Perceptions
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
– Ernest Walpole Horace (1717-1797), English Art Historian.
Writer’s Moment: Idleness
From equal amounts of hard graft and idleness stories somehow grow.
– Andrew Michael Hurley in the Guardian (2017).
Writer’s Moment: Behind the emotion
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
– Stanley Kubrick.
Writer’s Moment: Passion and Rational Conviction
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
– Bertrand Russell in the introduction to “Sceptical Essays” (1961).