Don't be afraid to let someone go if it's not working. You're not a bad boss. You're not a bad CEO.
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.
I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.
If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.
My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.
I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.
More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.
Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.
There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.
Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.
I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.
Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
Not every single person is bad, not all guys are bad, and I found my good one.
When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.
If I play bad, then I feel bad about myself and I have to do it better.
People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.
If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.
It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.
I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.
Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.
Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.
You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
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