Quotes about writ
writing culture environment
I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head. Josh Radnor
writing trying tasks
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. Joseph Conrad
writing men fellow-man
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
writing reality speech
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
writing wannabes composer
I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer. Joshua Bell
writing thinking ideas
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. Joshua Ferris
writing helping language
After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language. Joshua Homme
writing ideas people
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
writing thinking way-forward
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood. Joshua Foer
writing thinking essence
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
writing blood modern
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. Joseph Fiennes
writing simple great-writing
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that. Kate Mulgrew
writing airports bed
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. Kate Mosse
writing echoes mind
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
writing thinking people
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting. Kate Morton
writing process writing-process
I love the structural part of the writing process.
writing way might
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
writing thinking two
No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.
writing biology
I like writing about biology, not doing it. Kary Mullis
writing dumb way
There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. Justin Halpern
writing tone tunes
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. Leonard Bernstein
writing imagination creative
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.
writing people want
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to. Leona Lewis
writing giving use
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. Leonard Cohen
writing thinking needs
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
writing luck want
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work — just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.
writing order knows
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.
writing want pay
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
writing poetry ashes
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
writing people obscure
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
writing cutting shining
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
writing want terrorism
I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife. Lawrence Wright
writing knows
We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves. Layne Staley