Quotes about writ
writing two phrases
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. Jack Smith
writing sells felt
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. Jack Vance
writing computer speak
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
writing thinking backgrounds
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
writing desire plot
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
writing people should
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. Christopher Isherwood
writing quality language
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
writing play pages
I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it. Christopher Hitchens
writing political littles
I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
writing talking people
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
writing attention answers
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.
writing editors praise
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
writing thinking self
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
writing apologizing forget
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
writing eye depth
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold. Gaston Bachelard
writing sound divorced
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
writing want world
The words of the world want to make sentences.
writing texas play
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully. Gary Burton
writing poetry making-love
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
writing reality self
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.
writing profound want
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
writing people survival
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
writing self literature
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
writing suffering ease
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
writing dry hungry
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat Frederic Chopin
writing hair rocks
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.
writing might next
I might just write a novel next. I don't know! Frank Ocean
writing stories next
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
writing home lions
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den. Frank Miller
writing journalism shows
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
writing strategy ifs
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. George C. Marshall
writing editors editing
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision. George Carlin
writing composing sentences
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.