Quotes about writ
writing broken clubs
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is. Fred Rogers
writing
Money to a writer is time to write. Frank Herbert
writing attention ifs
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
writing historical secret
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
writing desire done
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. George Henry Lewes
writing science library
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
writing letters
I don't write letters anymore. George H. W. Bush
writing thinking years
Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part. Harmony Korine
writing games knows
You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about. Harold Brodkey
writing class ideas
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. Harold Bloom
writing thinking views
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.
writing thinking want
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
writing heart ashes
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit. Guru Nanak
writing thinking trying
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. Gus Van Sant
writing years one-day
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. Gunter Grass
writing drawing age
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
writing sometimes drawers
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
writing thinking mind
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
writing female different
The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well. Greg Rucka
writing different resolution
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. Graham Nelson
writing adventure home
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
writing people difficult
I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally. Graham Nash
writing opportunity ongoing
There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
writing action absorbing
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
writing cells long
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer. Graham Swift
writing years stories
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry. Jim C. Hines
writing wizards littles
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better. Jim Butcher
writing littles becoming
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
writing piano hymns
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Jessi Colter
writing
I don't have the patience to sit and write. Jesse Ventura
writing actors want
Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say. Jessica Alba
writing self expression
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. H. P. Lovecraft
writing drug tonight
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.