Quotes about writ
writing stories why-not
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me? Elizabeth Gilbert
writing thinking magic
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.
writing men names
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like, sure. I volunteered. I had been in a place in my life - a relationship had ended; my parents were getting elderly - I was kind of adrift. The name that was given to me, just randomly, was Todd Willingham. And he wrote me a letter, and in this letter, he thanked me for writing him and [said that] if I would like to visit, he would put me on his visitor list. ... I was just really struck by the letter from Todd. It was very polite; it was very kind.
writing dna self
When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
writing grandmother thinking
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.
writing years fiction
Returning to writing fiction after years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.
writing mind privilege
I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.
writing mirrors
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. Elaine Dundy
writing history way
It is the winners who write history - their way. Elaine Pagels
writing rocks joy
All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff. Elaine Stritch
writing vowels pewter
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. John Crowe Ransom
writing ambition thinking
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions. John Constable
writing boys use
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. John Burns
writing firsts wells
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. Joel Salatin
writing sermons
I write all my sermons. Joel Osteen
writing editing self
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening Joan Armatrading
writing order records
It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
writing obsessed wanted
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
writing writing-music born
Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
writing acting stories
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time. Joan Collins
writing thinking shopping
I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.
writing house magic
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now. Jimmy Page
writing plot things-are-not-what-they-seem
There is only one plot-things are not what they seem. Jim Thompson
writing two plot
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
writing thinking stuff
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. Loudon Wainwright III
writing careers growing
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
writing generations want
I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act. Lou Reed
writing play rocks
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
writing majority brian
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material. John Deacon
writing reality color
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write. John D. MacDonald
writing people purpose
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
writing differences knowing
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk. John Cassavetes
writing realistic compare
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.