Quotes about writ
writing would-be wonderful
Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about. Kate Atkinson
writing names clothes
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
writing people different
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'
writing would-be stories
I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
writing ties life-is
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
writing firsts said
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?
writing museums awards
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
writing thinking bob
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting. Justin Townes Earle
writing views opposites
I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite. Justine Larbalestier
writing able six
I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .
writing needs blown-away
I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.
writing procrastination trying
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out. Paolo Bacigalupi
writing blow dust
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
writing thinking ideas
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it's almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject. Pankaj Mishra
writing two islam
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.
writing passion thinking
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.
writing vanity feelings
So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world and it has not been done before and only you can do it. Without these feelings, many writers would not be able to write anything at all.
writing ideas mindfulness
The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as being negative or harmful before they become a part of your being, before they become some kind of action like writing an angry letter to someone or speaking too strongly to someone.
writing fruit imagine
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. Paracelsus
writing passion piano
I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion. Ottessa Moshfegh
writing people style
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. Otis Blackwell
writing guitar play
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. Otis Rush
writing film novel
A great novel is worth one thousand films. Oscar Hijuelos
writing lines way
Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing. P. C. Cast
writing thinking modesty
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others. Paul McCartney
writing voice pads
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
writing thinking done
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
writing color important
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
writing ordinary songwriting
I don't work at being ordinary.
writing perception musician
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. Pattie Boyd
writing always-trying stuff
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing. Patton Oswalt
writing discipline trying
Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
writing want rooms
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.