Quotes about writ
writing editing form
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. Sydney Pollack
writing technology people
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. Sylvia Earle
writing long people
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.
writing heart simple
Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm. Sydney J. Harris
writing devil you-only-live-once
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
writing thinking honest
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for. Sylvester Stallone
writing flow sometimes
Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.
writing acting ifs
If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.
writing support-you editors
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.
writing self who-i-am
I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
writing years long
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?
writing good-writing our-lives
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
writing interesting acting
Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.
writing swings intimidating
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. Suzy Bogguss
writing piano guitar
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. Suzi Quatro
writing singers kind
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
writing voice details
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. Suzanne Vega
writing civilized
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
writing issues people
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
writing form feels
I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
writing way direct
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
writing thinking people
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers. Susan Sontag
writing would-be truth-is
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
writing great-writers stills
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
writing interesting might
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.
writing trying stories
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
writing typewriters junk
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
writing mysterious activity
Writing is a mysterious activity.
writing because-i-can i-can
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
writing self bigger
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
writing thinking stamina
Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.
writing thinking talking
I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.
writing lakes decision
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.