Quotes about writ
writing creative would-be
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good. Kenneth Tynan
writing play effort
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
writing said reactionaries
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. Kenneth Rexroth
writing firsts rhythm
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. Ken Hensley
writing careers priorities
The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
writing
I write what I would like to read. Kathleen Norris
writing heart mean
Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.
writing needs actresses
What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that Kathleen Turner
writing important comedy
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap. Kathleen Hanna
writing want
I just write what I want to write.
writing emotional thinking
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way. Karl Ove Knausgard
writing thinking world
If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.
writing thinking play
You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It's the same kind of feeling. I'm just in it. It's not the words, it's not the sentences, I'm not aware of it. Then it's good.
writing modern-novel trying
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
writing strange easy
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
writing identity happens
National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
writing exercise insignificant-things
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
writing years agents
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript. Karl Marlantes
writing goes-on lasts
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. Karl Marx
writing history movement
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
writing self people
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! Kajol
writing stories recipes
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. Julia Child
writing talking response
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. Julia Cameron
writing reality alive
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
writing dancing needs
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.
writing more-time dominant
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.
writing practice life-is
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
writing giving environment
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
writing trying limited-time
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.
writing path right-thing
To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
writing over-you paper
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
writing conscious fluid
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.
writing mind want
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.