Quotes about writ
writing feel-good feelings
I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody. Leon Bridges
writing rewriting i-can
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. Leo Tolstoy
writing play laughing
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
writing order each-day
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
writing law easy
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
writing stories sides
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
writing journey men
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
writing pieces flesh
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
writing reality people
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot. Leigh Brackett
writing pieces paper
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. Leo Ornstein
writing men ears
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
writing important pieces
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
writing thinking burden
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
writing written
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
writing thinking want
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
writing exercise thinking
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. Leo Kottke
writing trying hens
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. Leo Burnett
writing speech advertising
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.
writing story-writers helping
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. Leo Rosten
writing want indiana
But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to. Lawrence Kasdan
writing night rest-of-your-life
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
writing thinking ideas
As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy. Lawrence Lessig
writing mean people
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.
writing creative gardening
I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way. Lauren Bowles
writing dark order
A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly. Lauren Groff
writing tasks fiction
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.
writing world layers
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
writing fiction world
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
writing happy-life simple
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
writing actors should
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. Lauren Graham
writing night hours
At night I can write for hours. Lauren Conrad
writing great-things
That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.
writing magazines stories
I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.