Rebecca Miller Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Frustration, Color

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how they interact. It's true that I'm hypersensitive to all that. Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.

  Rebecca Miller

  Ocean, Writing, Ignorance

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

• When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Discipline, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

  Rebecca Miller

  Daughter, Writing, Arthur

• One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I had to write another novel now I would really not be good in my head anymore. It's too much. The frustration is so intense of knowing that this structure is right around the corner. Writing is a particular kind of frustration.

  Rebecca Miller

  Art, Writing, Frustration

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, Writing, Roots

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Miracle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Mind, Synthesis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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