#writ

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#course #focus #huge #i #mean

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#best #choosing #directors #every #i

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#developing #every #executive #finding #had

I like sitting and writing with my buddies. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#i #like #sitting #writing

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#directing #film #forming #i #into

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#ever #i #knew #life #man

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#best #birth #fired #life #luck

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#according #am #degree #destinations #i

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #i am #i do #i write #just

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed