Quotes about writ
writing feelings ambitious
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged. Koren Zailckas
writing ideas cracks
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.
writing hard
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. Kris Allen
writing forever
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.
writing thinking rapper
I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper. Kool Keith
writing men sides
I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.
writing records sexiest
I write the most sexiest records out.
writing people focus
I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest. Kip Moore
writing littles annoying
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. Kingsley Amis
writing simple government
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work. Omar N. Bradley
writing men arabia
For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it. Omar Sharif
writing positivity people
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey
writing process writing-process
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. Olivia Wilde
writing criticism world
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith
writing waiting mood
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. Margaret Atwood
writing together may
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
writing people depth
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.
writing cuneiform
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
writing mean events
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.
writing genre mediocre
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
writing dark ideas
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
writing desire narrative
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
writing men making-love
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.
writing inspire pages
Blank pages inspire me with terror.
writing forever lines
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
writing lines married
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
writing going-away taught
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.
writing heart blind
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.
writing safety-pins broken
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
writing perfect long
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
writing might knots
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
writing perfect waiting
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
writing ratios reason
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.