Aaron Zigman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Two Quotes

Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

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This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

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