Roger Ebert Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

  Roger Ebert

  Writing, Get Better, Things You Can Control

• When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

  Roger Ebert

  Writing, Problem, Invisible

  "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2010.

• To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

  Roger Ebert

  Passion, Writing, Cards

  "Spoiling for 'Star Wars'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

• When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Writing, Athlete

  "Transcendence and the Creative Process" by Ann Purcell, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

• I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

  Roger Ebert

  Writing, Trouble, Concentration

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.439, University of Chicago Press

• When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"

  Roger Ebert

  Get Well, Writing, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Revenge, Believe, Teaching

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