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Writing Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski
- Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure…
- At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or…
- I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white…
- There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
- Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
- A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what…
- Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or…
- I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason…
- I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the…
- The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of…
- When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to…
- Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah,…
- If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where…
- Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see…
- When in doubt, blow something up.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch