Quotes about writ
writing years challenges
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year. John Zorn
writing trying pieces
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 thinking creative
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.
writing world unconventional
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional. Lynn Shelton
writing up-to-you life-is
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately Lynn Johnston
writing faces
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. Luigi Pirandello
writing men doe
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
writing years ideas
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes. Ludwig van Beethoven
writing thinking long
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down.
writing letters alphabet
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
writing heart honor
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
writing imagination trying
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.
writing style deceit
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit. Ludwig Wittgenstein
writing play piano
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. Luc Ferrari
writing compassion conviction
Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction. Luanne Rice
writing people intellectual
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me. Louis Menand
writing people kind
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.
writing oddities ideas
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.
writing sound timing
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.
writing thinking discipline
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.
writing
I love to write poetry. Shayne Ward
writing people want
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.
writing want
I don't want my writing to be recognized. Shawn Ryan
writing unique people
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
writing thinking appreciate
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. Sherry Turkle
writing happened ifs
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened. Sherwood Anderson
writing absurdity
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
writing ifs
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
writing technology different
Technology has helped me with the writing and recording processes, and it's a great way to reach out to fans of my music, ... Dell's combining all these different technologies and making it really easy to enjoy them. Sheryl Crow
writing firsts stories
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Terry Pratchett
writing may close-friends
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. Nina Bawden
writing age life-is
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
writing thieves tools
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.