Quotes about writ
writing breathe immigrants
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing. Gary Shteyngart
writing play acting
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. Gary Oldman
writing worry long
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change. Gabriel Iglesias
writing thinking years
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' Gabriel Garcia Marquez
writing want fame
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
writing moments frightened
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
writing important young-writers
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
writing transparent visible
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
writing stories levitation
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
writing journalist
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
writing light law
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
writing two lakes
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como. Franz Liszt
writing people wish
I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that. Fred Armisen
writing creative boxes
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. Frank Iero
writing passion people
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me. Francoise Sagan
writing editors accepted
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
writing balance ifs
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
writing decision finding-yourself
When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
writing ideas shadow
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
writing arbitrary jazz
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
writing thinking stories
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. Frank Serpico
writing want dull
Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull. Frank Robinson
writing europe different
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.
writing play age
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. George Jean Nathan
writing crowds conversation
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation. Chris Hardwick
writing ideas waiting-in-line
Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.
writing ideas laughing
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.
writing views people
There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important. Christopher A. Sims
writing journey purpose
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear. Christopher Columbus
writing two apples
I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use. Christian Serratos
writing care littles
I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.
writing way feels
One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry. Christian Wiman
writing discipline world
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness.