Quotes about writ
writing shining genius
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. Jack Kerouac
writing thinking sorrow
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.
writing details prose
Details are the Life of Prose.
writing dark simple
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
writing be-kind kind
Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
writing mind want
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,
writing night giving
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.
writing form feels
Something that you feel will find its own form.
writing elements faults
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
writing men down-and
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...
writing way inspiration-to-write
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
writing giving genius
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
writing years play
I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating. Jack Bruce
writing rocks track
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.
writing years skills
If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak. J. C. Watts
writing would-be ifs
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. J. B. Priestley
writing odds challenges
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
writing ideas instruments
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
writing white perspective
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many. J. Cole
writing heart school
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
writing laughing trying
I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh. J. B. Smoove
writing trying may
I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie. Isaac Watts
writing giving connections
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing Isabel Allende
writing mystery possibility
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
writing air creative
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.
writing ideas stories
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
writing world sometimes
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
writing stories ends
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
writing years i-have-learned
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
writing choices calling
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
writing exercise mirrors
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
writing joy complaining
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
writing silence able
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.