Amy Poehler Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Brain, Tragedy

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

• The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Boring, Truth Is

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.2, Pan Macmillan

• When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Eye, Writing

• I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Tired, Mirrors

  "Yes Please". Book by Amy Poehler, 2014.

• Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.

  Amy Poehler

  Struggle, Book, Wrestling

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.10, Harper Collins

• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Character, Down And

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