Quotes about writ
writing color political
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac
writing half crafts
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Ice T
writing track locks
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
writing men rapper
It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.
writing bigger-and-better-things waiting
You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big. Ice Cube
writing mean thinking
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time. Ian Mcewan
writing giving people
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
writing
I'm quite good at not writing.
writing perfect if-i-could
If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
writing people fiction
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
writing stronger might
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
writing imagination fancy
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
writing years standards
We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years. Ian Brown
writing friendly sometimes
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. Ian Hamilton Finlay
writing muse given
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
writing precedent
Everything I write has a precedent in truth. Ian Fleming
writing looks asks
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
writing numbers people
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer. Hugh MacDiarmid
writing able
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. Hugh Leonard
writing skills ideas
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were. Hugh Mackay
writing years track
Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track. Hugh Jackman
writing simple play
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear? Horace Silver
writing style wells
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. Horace Greeley
writing doe ugly
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women. Horace Walpole
writing ink cold
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
writing laughing tragedy
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
writing wish study
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets. Horace Mann
writing thinking fiction
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write. Erica Jong
writing knowing beginners
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
writing
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
writing people lasts
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
writing oxygen giving
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
writing thinking parting
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.