Quotes about writ
writing home practice
I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues! Jools Holland
writing too-much
I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. Jonny Greenwood
writing worry orchestra
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.
writing guitar talking
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
writing people lazy
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. Joni Mitchell
writing loss tragedy
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
writing lines laundry
I hang my laundry on the line when I write.
writing blood people
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
writing guitar frustrated
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
writing play interesting
Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.
writing years laughing
When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something. Jonathan Stroud
writing thinking years
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.
writing light rising
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. Jonathan Swift
writing yesterday rejection
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
writing years people
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story. Kevin Smith
writing intelligent interesting
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
writing people acting
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
writing heart men
I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen. Kevin Spacey
writing taught ifs
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. Kevin Bleyer
writing long effort
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did. Kevin Brockmeier
writing creating atmosphere
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much interpret as breathe.
writing fire burning
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. Kenneth Clark
writing years law
The Practice I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long. Kelli Williams
writing worry borrowing
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. Kelley Armstrong
writing style needs
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
writing reality alternate-realities
The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project. Kathy Sierra
writing hygiene it-takes-a-village
Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village. Kathy Reichs
writing profound perfect
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing mind obscurity
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
writing long-ago people
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. Joel Chandler Harris
writing self paper
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
writing waiting records
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. Joe Walsh