Quotes about writ
writing names noise
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. Sylvia Porter
writing ideas excuse
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing." Sylvia Plath
writing letters writing-poems
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. Sylvia Plath
writing america people
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. Sylvia Plath
writing laughing trying
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping! Sylvia Plath
writing england comfort
England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there. Sylvia Plath
writing too-late letters
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. Sylvia Plath
writing sitting matter
The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time. Sylvia Plath
writing vulnerable feels
I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing ... Sylvia Plath
writing way chaos
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience. Sylvia Plath
writing world
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. Sylvia Plath
writing voice stills
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still Sylvia Plath
writing feminism classic
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. Sylvia Plath
writing mind principles
The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons. Swami Vivekananda
writing concerts periods
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. Roscoe Mitchell
writing giving people
It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by Rosario Dawson
writing needs might
There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing. Rosanne Cash
writing giving perfect
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting. Rosanne Cash
writing successful skills
Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner. Ronald D. Moore
writing character thinking
There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can't do, what they're good at and what they're not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast. Ronald D. Moore
writing odd-things stories
It was difficult, and yet I was very eager to do it. It was a really odd thing. I really wanted to do that story. I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk. I really wanted to do it in the movie. Ronald D. Moore
writing loss office
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. Ron Suskind
writing white house
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again Ron Suskind
writing exercise exposure
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. Ron White
writing justice president
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional. Ron Fournier
writing doors desperate
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel, Samantha Shannon
writing thinking stories
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. Samantha Morton
writing thinking interesting
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited. Rupert Holmes
writing three world
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. Rupert Brooke
writing people age
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. Rupert Everett
written
The love religion is all that is written here. Rumi
writing broke pens
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. Rumi
writing neurosis novelists
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. Tom Robbins