Quotes about writ
writing ideas scripts
To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas. Shiloh Fernandez
writing self-confidence needs
I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable. Sheryl Sandberg
writing conversation
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.
writing gone draws
When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter--someone new? Someone better--maybe YOU! Shel Silverstein
writing lions
...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...
writing needs actors
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that. Sharon Horgan
writing people competition
I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.
writing want stories
When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. Sharon Creech
writing moon two
Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.
writing wells accurate
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. Sharon Olds
writing feelings wish
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.
writing thinking way
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
writing lucky late
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
writing thinking lines
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. Neil Patrick Harris
writing i-can remove
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. Natalie Merchant
writing labor knows
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
writing demand behinds
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. Natalie Goldberg
writing mind cracks
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
writing discovery mind
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.
writing compassion fields
Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.
writing practice pages
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
writing thinking mind
The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.
writing shut-up ends
In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
writing offering political
In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry.
writing world steps
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.
writing dignity speak-the-truth
Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth ...
writing use shut-up
Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
writing mcdonalds hamburgers
Writing is not a McDonald’s Hamburger..
writing mind taste
When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind
writing artist ideas
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
writing thinking mind
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.
writing cutting darkness
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...
writing hands feel-good
First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.