#writ

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. ↗

— Macklemore

#consumerism #culture #down #examine #examines

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#doubts #his #own #questions #story

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#i #i am #symphonies #way #weren

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. ↗

— David Letterman

#bush #george #george w #giving #house

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#between #directors #discovered #down #exactly

You have to go where the good writing is. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#good #good writing #where #writing #you

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#means #outside #piece #remain #step

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go. ↗

— Emmanuel Lewis

#go #i #learning #produce #want

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#ambition #book #going #happens #least